Daniel Hale’s revelations about the brutalities of US drone warfare didn’t harm any Americans or make them less safe. But his prosecution for whistleblowing and recent sentencing to nearly four years in prison was a blow against democracy.
Peter Jackson’s Get Back, the latest revisionist Beatles product, has glimpses of the political moment that made the band possible — and how distant we are from it today.
We can take antisemitism seriously without making communal identity the organizing principle of public life.
The victory at Standing Rock in the face of state repression is a testament to the power of direct action.
For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of Israel. But Israel’s war in Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism.
Since a US-backed coup toppled leftist president Manuel Zelaya in 2009, Honduras has been in crisis. The election of socialist Xiomara Castro is a chance to break the cycle and take on neoliberalism.
Police and mass incarceration are only the most visible and obvious manifestations of the prison-industrial complex. Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that the prison-industrial complex is a holistic social organizing principle that pervades life under capitalism.
In 1975, Indonesian dictator Suharto occupied East Timor. Despite the West’s support for Suharto, the people of East Timor won their independence 24 years later — and their struggle may be a precedent for Palestinian liberation today.
Kshama Sawant on how the fight against race- and gender-based oppression fits into the fight for socialism.
When pro-Israel voices carelessly accuse their opponents of antisemitism, they reduce a serious and specific charge to just another political slur. The longer this goes on, the harder it is to identify and respond to real and gravely serious antisemitism.
Some try to paint Martin Luther King Jr as an unswerving supporter of Israel. They're wrong.
Jeremy Corbyn argues that by empowering media workers, putting the public in control, and taking on unaccountable billionaires, the British press can be vibrant, democratic, and sustainable.
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Moon Jae-in’s presidential victory closed the door on Park Geun-hye’s scandal-prone administration, but will it create space for real social and political transformation?
The irony of Democrats reducing their entire politics to reflexive opposition to Donald Trump is that, as a result, Trump now faces no credible opposition.
Marine Le Pen has taken the National Front into the French mainstream without shedding the party's far-right politics.
Abolitionists gave us the vital idea that some things should not be for sale.
At Collin College, an institution of higher learning in McKinney, Texas where two professors involved in union organizing were recently fired, the president proudly boasts of the school's "Amazonification." The episode offers a dire picture of the direction higher ed is rapidly heading nationwide.
Freelancers have more in common with other workers than with small-business entrepreneurs.
After the massive No Kings protests, we need bigger, more disruptive nonviolent campaigns that can go viral and peel away Donald Trump’s pillars of support.