The Right has long owned ideas of government efficiency and cutting red tape, using them to carry out austerity. With the Commission on Government Efficiency (yes, COGE), Zohran Mamdani is attempting ...

China has witnessed the greatest stretch of growth and poverty alleviation in human history, made possible by the brutal exploitation of millions of workers. A new book recounts one of their lives, ...

The disarmament of the Workers’ Party and promised release of its prisoners offers a path to pacifying conflict in Turkey. It ...

Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most ...

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget ...

The Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its ...

Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost ...

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

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

Hollywood’s unions fight for tax credits and jobs but not for the movies themselves. That has to change. Unions can take up ...

A new survey of 6,100 voters finds that persuadable voters respond to plain talk about rent, groceries, and corruption — and ...

Steelworks 80, a planned steel expansion that brought workers to northern Sweden, was derailed by a global downturn. Its ...