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Editorial PhilosophyThe Path From Survival to Citizenship Access to food, stable housing, healthcare, and socioeconomic security shapes more than daily life. Material insecurity…
The world did not lack knowledge of what was happening to Palestinians. It knew. It knew that a people had been living…
In 2009, a political disagreement about organizing and bargaining strategy, involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its second largest healthcare…
Social, economic, ecological, cultural collapse is on many people’s minds. With the world tilting. With logic seemingly abandoned. How can one make…
On September 15th, fifteen-year-old Mohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school in Gaza city with friends and stopped in a shop. …
On October 5, as Donald Trump headed to Nebraska on his 32-day midterm campaign tour, voters there were confronting rising diesel prices…
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking…
On the morning of July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, a group of physicists waited for the culmination of a…
There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with precisely the right number of…
I’m an animal liberationist and a cinephile. There’s not much I love more than when these two passions intersect. While I’ve read…
Argentina holds one of the most contradictory political histories in Latin America. The birthplace of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, with a powerful tradition…
Something important is happening across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. Wars that appear local are drawing in actors from…
Looking across the devastated landscape of the Gaza Strip, where surviving generations now carry the permanent physical and psychological scars of war,…
The trend was already tracing itself through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defence department has fallen, most heavily,…
On the last Friday before the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed,…
In September, 175,000 workers at 280 locations in Germany’s automotive and supplier industry engaged in a day of protest against the planned…
I am not a military expert, but I do not read the withdrawal of Tigrayan forces from towns as straightforward evidence that…
A recent New York Times editorial by Tim Wu, a former antitrust adviser for the Biden administration, caught my eye for the criticism it leveled…
When I first saw footage of Gaza doctor Munir al-Bursh and his family kneeling beside the white-shrouded body of his son, surrounded…
France is presently in the throes of nationwide student protests that have turned increasingly violent as the police crack down on students,…
With a few honorable exceptions, Democrats have done little to resist Trump’s juggernaut or to present an alternative program to meet the…
Germany is a country with a long and complex relationship to authoritarianism. It is also of course the country that gave birth…
“If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice…Do not forget Gaza…And do not…
Things are looking bleaker by the day for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, most notably for his standing as a competent leader…
According to the IEA’s global electricity mix, non-renewable, unsustainable and highly polluting fossil fuels still make up 57% of electricity production with…
I am, maybe, a reader at cross-purposes from this book’s intent. I translate the challenge of fighting Zionist oppression of Palestine gentiles,…
On September 29, 2026, President Trump convened the chief executives of several of the world’s most powerful technology companies at the White…
On 20 September, South Korea’s Lee Administration stated that, contrary to foreign media coverage, it had not rejected Trump’s request for support…
As the Left epitomized by the Democratic Socialists of America resurges and Marxist thought returns to the fore, as a real force,…
For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through…
This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to…
What is happening in Ethiopia is no longer adequately described as another round of the Tigray war. The fighting grew out of…
In April 2023, the war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia; its impact has…
Five men, initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, then arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist…
This (quite long), article continued the sequence that excerpts from the seven author book Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. This time…
Collapse, like many of the terms that we absorb via osmosis, or from niche online sources, has a diffuse, deeply confusing quality.…
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor once said, “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national…
The New Reality China’s President Xi Jinping’s sixth visit to the US has come and gone. Expectations were low for any kind…
The New School is a historically progressive US academic institution that has fallen on hard times. Recently, it has been in the…
How do we explain the rise and normalization of fascism in Germany and the United States? How important are the upcoming midterm…
In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor…
With Germany’s export capitalism in deep crisis, German capital has gone on the attack, seeking to destroy the eight-hour workday, lower wages,…
When the executive branch summarily stripped MS NOW, CNN, and Politico of their White House journalistic credentials, it enacted far more than…
Despite centuries of colonial domination and the subsequent US blockade, Cuba has achieved great things, guided by anti-imperialism, revolutionary internationalism and solidarity…
Since the beginning of 2026, the United States has maintained an oil blockade on Cuba. Through the capture of president Nicolas Maduro…
There is a particular kind of pride in realizing that our comrades take the time to work through and transmit useful ideas,…
History rarely repeats itself without rhyme, but it often echoes with a deafening, unheeded irony. When the World Trade Center towers were…
Donald Trump’s promise to give every American adult a $5,000 check comes at a revealing moment. His administration has been reshaping the…
As I sat and viewed Haile Gerima’s latest film, Black Lions, Roman Wolves both at home via streaming and at its North…
This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the…



