When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it had settled its “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon last month, leaders at the antitrust and

Both the Israeli and the American governments insist that the "Trump peace plan" requires the complete disarmament of Hamas, which, with an estimated

One takeaway from Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s excellent book, Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present, is that there is a playbook pursuant to which all authoritarians

Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan and possibly

The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision

I am rarely surprised by anything Trump says anymore. There is no lie too transparent to stop him—remember “sunny”when it was overcast? Or his absurdly

If you've been following the federal courts’ scattershot decisions on Trump's domestic troop movements, you may feel a bit spun around. One week democracy

The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of collective struggle, has been

The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives.…

The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled

A recurring theme in policy circles over the last three decades has been that young people should blame their economic problems on older people. The idea is that rather than being concerned about the massive upward redistribution of income, which has made…

An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.

Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America First” agenda, Oklahoma had been there, done that.

Modotti has been an important figure in feminist and women's studies because of her genius as an artist, her independent life and her unwillingness to subordinate herself to men (including Weston).

Incarcerated for 44 years, the political prisoner remains unbowed in the face of medical neglect.

His art criticism reaches rarified heights—combining style, rigor, and politics like almost no one else.

Chávez’s “Strike at the Helm” speech has been described as the masterful route to building a participatory and protagonist democracy, the 21st-century political model that is burying what Chavez referred to as the “failed and exhausted bourgeois representative…

Forensic examination of 120 Palestinian bodies show ‘clear evidence’ of torture and possible organ theft.

Filipinos have been protesting against the theft of public funds for flood defenses by corrupt politicians. The protesters face a political class whose leading figures, President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, are now bitter enemies.