Timothée Chalamet's offhand jab at “dying” high culture sparked celebrity outrage. But without robust public investment and ...
The affluent often blame poverty on bad budgeting skills, claiming the poor just need to be taught financial literacy. But ...
The Trump administration has spent around $24 billion in public funds on its war against Iran so far. Here’s what that money ...
The Christian Zionist movement has long pushed for regime change in Iran. With allies in Donald Trump’s inner circle and its ideas seeping into the US military, it has played a key role in building ...
Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or ...
Some on the Left believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions in its operation or redistribution of its spoils. There is no good evidence that this is true.
Amid the horrors of war, it’s always tempting for some on the Left to stake out more and more radical sloganeering. This was ...
Every year, an algorithm assigns thousands of medical students to residencies they can’t leave, can’t negotiate with, and can’t refuse. The Match system creates a captive workforce that stiffs ...
The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to ...
As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks his final term as Brazil’s president, the Left’s electoral strategy — who runs, which factions align, and how the coalition balances pragmatism with principle — is ...
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his ...
The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of ...