It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care ...

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct ...

Intelligence agencies like the CIA have been cultivating ties with universities for decades. They use money and influence to co-opt research and foster a benign image of their role at the expense of ...

Plenty of contemporary comedy gazes upon American stupidity and concludes that Americans are stupid. The Chapo Trap House ...

Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May ...

The primary in France’s Parti Socialiste will not likely pick the winner of the 2027 presidential election. But it will decide whether the party seeks compromise on the Left, or else directs its fire ...

US leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense ...

Unruly Revolutionary, responds to his critics. The final years of Victor Serge’s Notebooks are full of evidence supporting the case for his abandonment of the “revolutionary” in revolutionary ...

Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...

The Christian right hasn’t always dominated Texas politics. While it claims to represent a deep regional tradition, the state’s modern right-wing evangelicalism is a newer invention — forged in the ...

Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this ...

The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her landmark Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated ...