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…
‘Page Six Hollywood’ recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago,…
Recently capitalism in Germany did not do too well – despite the neoliberal promise of eternal growth – economic output increased only…
It’s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether they arrive through regular channels…
This 21 September marks the second anniversary of Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) government, a political movement led by the left-wing…
At the beginning of the concert, when the lights in the hall were gently dimmed and the sound of a wind instrument…
In his typical fashion (that many commentators characterize as act first, think never), Trump has handed the media (i.e., the enemy of…
In this interview, Tadzio Müller argues that the climate movement needs to rethink its strategies in light of worsening ecological and political…
The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York…
On June 6, 2025, Donald Trump’s White House staff issued an upbeat statement proclaiming that what it called the “Trump Effect” was creating “higher…
The word “socialism” appears steadily more often in steadily more places. Socialism praised, cursed, interred. Socialism past, future, resurrected. What is this…
In the summer and autumn of 2026, German media and theoretical circles witnessed one of the most intense socio-economic debates in recent…
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, especially regarding children, a mooring of his premiership. Politically, he is so invested…
On 20 September 2006, Hugo Chávez stepped up to the granite podium of the United Nations General Assembly. A day earlier, from…
In an earlier essay, “To Understand the Houthis, Begin With Yemen”, I argued that describing the Houthis simply as Iranian proxies gets…
The rebellion that shattered the dawn of 7 October 2023 did more than break through the concrete Zionist walls surrounding Gaza. What…
Long before Little Red Riding Hood — or Rotkäppchen — and even before Tacitus’s Germania (98 AD), Germans had a quasi-mythical relationship…
Recently, I’ve wondered if the animal movement would benefit from big tent advocacy organizations with internal elections to determine leadership, like the…
I love the name of this conference, United In Radical Solidarity. Solidarity to me is an action of putting into practice, the…
The AfD has long converted the use of parliament into an abuse of parliament. The strategy of undermining and disabling Germany’s parliaments…
Why pursue gigantic data centers called “Hyperscalers”? Presumably, those who seek them believe they are essential for the continued elaboration of ever…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to pass a law to revoke the citizenship of anyone who defames Israel’s soldiers, his latest threat against…
For a long time, it was still possible to describe the problem mainly as one of implementation. Displaced Tigrayans had not returned…
Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony helps explain how the power structure of modern liberaldemocratic societies maintains authority without relying on overt force.…
The end of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe was hailed as the great universal consolidation of capitalism,…
This past week the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark short term interest (Federal Funds) rate a minimal quarter point, .25, from 3.75%…
Which World Does the Woman Question Belong To? The woman question cannot be explained within the bounds of a single nation or…
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada,…
After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President Trump approved, on September 15, 2026, an additional…
When I was a kid growing up in a very pro-Zionist, Conservative Jewish family, I was subject to all kinds of propaganda…
A recent study from Germany shows that those who understand artificial intelligence (AI) are more scared of losing their jobs. So far,…
It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial…
The Houthis are routinely described as an Iranian proxy. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded…
At the BRICS Business Forum in Bharat Mandapam on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin read out the numbers. The eleven members of…
Fifteen years ago, during President Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans but also…
This article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. Its seven co-authors felt that a successful left…
