In a forceful address ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 elections, gender justice leader Shobha Shukla declared that inclusive democracy is not a side…
When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough…
Ryan Kominakis opened his energy bill several months ago and decided on the spot to run for state representative in Indiana’s 4th…
On 20 August, during the 23rd edition of the Council of the Americas in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei concluded his speech to…
The term “antisemitism” is now so commonly used as an accusation as to be placed beyond questioning. This is particularly so in…
The People’s Palace: The End of One Experiment and the Beginning of a New Question On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from…
Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not ignorance of the risks,…
This article examines Qatar’s position by combining rentier state theory, world-systems theory, and Marxist political economy. Its central argument is that Qatar’s…
Refugees are usually presented to the world at the moment when they have lost the most: homes, livelihoods, citizenship protections, family members…
A recent analysis of the impact of global warming in Germany this summer, which is not over yet, saw not only a…
As a mother of two children who has often been on the losing side of family battles against screen time, I’ve been…
Bernie Sanders has recently taken up AI issues but I have a feeling most leftists are skeptical of AI’s critics, not particularly…
Childhood is meant to be a journey of gradual awakenings; an accumulation of sunlit afternoons, scraped knees, carefree school days and the…
The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of goodwill…
As global crises descend around him, Donald Trump seems increasingly incapable of a rational response. He rants and rails, threatens and indulges…
Dear Editor: I was very disappointed to see the plug for (so-called) artificial intelligence on the second-to-last page of the May 2026…
Forget about Ancient Sparta, Attila the Hun, Hernán Cortés, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Adolf Hitler, and all of the conquerors that…
When Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, the reaction among many Ethiopians, especially in the diaspora, was extraordinary. There was understandable…
Earlier this year, after admiring the organization for about a decade, I finally joined the Democratic Socialists of America. In many ways,…
The gravest danger in the present war is not that Iran has already decided to manufacture a nuclear weapon. There is no…
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM [August 24, 2026]: On August 29, 2026, international activists, grassroots movements, and civil society organizations will converge in Ixelles, Brussels,…
Dear friends and colleagues, The United States and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in February of this year. For…
It’s a good thing that labor journalist and author Matt Witt was not running for governor of Wisconsin this year like DSA…
In September 2025, I published a two-part article, “Challenging Marxism and Identity Politics” (see Scipes, 2025a, b). This article not only challenged…
Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you…
Majid Maleki Meighani, who analyzes developments in the Middle East, emphasizes that events in the region need to be examined on three…
Trump offered to scale down the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise (carried out annually by the US Forces in Korea (USFK) and Republic…
The Sahrawi people, a nomadic community in North Africa influenced by Berber, African and Arab cultures – and whose name means ‘inhabitants…
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second…
Another Layer Beneath the Flows This article continues the argument developed in Empire Without Flags: Imperial Outreach and the Architecture of Structural…
The month he turned 50, my father, Mervyn de Silva, and my mother, Lakshmi, were in Havana watching Fidel Castro take over…
Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental…
Honestly, you couldn’t make this world up, could you? Before 2016, in what grim fantasy (or comedy) would Donald Trump ever have…
The lesson scrawled and etched across the neglected covers of history books (few read them these days) suggests one mighty, consistent rule:…
Progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon scored a major upset over former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman in the Florida Democratic Senate primary, setting up…
In April 2023, war broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. The fallout…
There is something peculiar about the way history enters political arguments in the Horn of Africa. It is rarely allowed to remain…
The Streets are Alive with the Sound of Citizens Supine for over a decade, the Republic shows hints of a spine. It…
Prior to the Senate’s summer recess, lobbyists and advocates of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act or Clarity Act made a frantic…
Tonight, somewhere in Havana, an old man will be connected to a hemodialysis machine. The machine depends on electricity. The electricity depends…
Recently, while listening to an NPR interview with Cuban-American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late political scientist Michael Parenti’s…
In August, right-wing billionaire Abelardo de la Espriella took office as Colombia’s president and vowed to move an agenda of the far…
Most people in the USA in August 2026 are opposed to U.S. Dictator Trump’s post-January 20, 2025 foreign policy of seeking regime…
The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have…
For decades, the political landscape of the Middle East has been shaped by a momentous ideological collision. On one side stands Zionism;…
The cover letters got better. As evidence about the people who wrote them, they got worse. On a large online labor market,…
It has long been a cliche of American conservatives, particularly in their current MAGA iteration–and more center-left thinkers as well–that the economic…
Forty years ago seven writer/activists collectively co-wrote a book titled, Liberating Theory. The seven authors were myself, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel,…
Javier Milei’s government recently suffered a double defeat. The first occurred in the streets, with massive protests against his plan to liberalize…
It was 1974. The Bronx was burning. Abandoned cars littered the streets, and New York City teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.…
