Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May ...
Plenty of contemporary comedy gazes upon American stupidity and concludes that Americans are stupid. The Chapo Trap House ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its ...
Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this ...
The primacy of the dollar is considered one of the pillars of American might, conferring exorbitant financial privileges and ...
Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse ...
When AI insiders warn that their products could wipe out humanity, they mean that their own work is maximally important and demands unprecedented investment. This extinction fantasy distracts from the ...
Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...