Z Friends & Staff Posts
Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nation—a perfect counterpoint to the…
The decision resonated as shocking for all sides. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose entire war strategy hinges on the starvation of…
In the face of the ongoing genocide unfolding before our eyes in Gaza, with Human Rights Watch warning “Latest Israeli Plan Inches…
Freddie Sayers sits down with Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Münchau to discuss the future of Eastern Europe and the European Union. Is…
Has neoliberal globalization run its course? Should the Left be on the side of tariffs or protectionism? Can Left internationalism be revived?…
Midway through this month, Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries sent out a fundraising text saying that he “recently announced a 10-point plan to…
Video footage of a young girl trying to flee an inferno caused by a Monday Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of Palestinians…
June 14th will likely be a shocking, provocative, and scary day of grotesque militaristic, fascistic danger but also an exciting, enticing, and…
“Contact engenders more trust, more solidarity and more mutual kindness. It helps you see the world through other people’s eyes. (p. 358)…
The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that…
Istanbul 2.0: A pre-meditated choreography of failure The long-anticipated negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, held once again in Istanbul on…
At the end of Trump’s first 100 days, the defense of society against his MAGA juggernaut has begun — and is gaining…
The following discussion is part of a longer analysis published in Social Policy (Spring 2025), “From L4B to TAT. Challenging Union Political…
There was a time when Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to have all the cards. The Palestinian Authority was largely passive, the occupied West…
In early February, a few weeks into this time of testing, I identified our objectives over the next two years as “making as many…
June 14th, Trump’s birthday, he intends to sit on some wannabe throne looking out over Washington DC admiring what he considers his…
RICHARD ESKOW: In a recent column you asked, “What’s preventing a united front against the Trump regime?” You say, “America desperately needs…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a skilled salesperson, though the product he peddles is deeply flawed. His current challenge is to…
The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist’,…
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and the leader of the DiEM25, the left-wing, pan-European political alliance that he co-founded in 2016…
President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States…
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and…
Rümeysa Öztürk, one of several pro-Palestine scholars kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration under its dubious interpretation of an 18th-century law…
Prof. Patrick Bond sat down with the MRN to offer insights into the reality behind the rhetoric on Israel. He explains the…
I bet you agree that we need to persistently resist Trumpian fascism. ‘Smash Trump. Sink his administration. Replace both.” I said that…
“Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by. . . choosing to let…
When Emmanuel Macron beat Marine Le Pen handsomely to reclaim the French presidency in 2022, the liberal establishment was in ecstasy. Their…
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and…
“We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones…
Last week, Trump administration officials blasted Germany after a 1,100-page report from that country’s intelligence agency found that the Alternative for Germany…
The Bandung Conference in April 1955 has achieved the status of a mythical moment in the history of the Global South. There…
When President Trump’s cabinet picks trooped up to Capitol Hill earlier this year for Senate confirmation hearings, hardly any boasted about their…
I know you have lives to lead. Friends and parties to enjoy. Tests to take and grades to earn. Jobs to be…
In the early hours of May 2, the quiet of night was shattered aboard the Conscience, a civilian vessel anchored in international waters,…
Press freedom in the United States has fallen to its lowest level since Reporters Without Borders (also known as Reporters Sans Frontières…
The imposition of tariffs on countries around the world has had a major impact on South Africa and many other countries in…
The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam…
A seemingly strange choice was made by a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 when he decided, on April 22, to publish one of the…
Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical…
For my father’s generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn’t just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been…
Eight years before the U.S.-backed regime in South Vietnam collapsed, I stood with high school friends at Manhattan’s Penn Station on the…
Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors around the world from the Trump administration. On…
Back in 2016, I was convinced that, had Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential nomination, he would have beaten Donald Trump because he would…
To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that…
“Rights are granted to those who align with power,” Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student, eloquently wrote from his cell. This poignant statement…
In 2022, Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: Franciscus. Franciscus,…
Growing up, I had virtually no contact with people who identified themselves as Catholics. Perhaps some of my friends and acquaintances in…
In the first hundred days of the Trump regime, actions against his juggernaut have swelled from small local demonstrations to nationwide days…
How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed…
