Huge bankruptcies for used car firms have exposed Wall Street’s entanglement with the sector. Far from derisking after the Great Recession, banks rebuilt the economy on obscure financial intermediaries that are now sinking.

The Supreme Court rescues Trump while impacting millions.

Will Amazon disrupt groceries? How did Walmart take over food sales? Is Zohran Mamdani’s public grocery plan too small? Why is the market increasingly polarized between Erewhons and dollar stores? An ex–Whole Foods vice president gives us an industry tour.

The activist and writer Cory Doctorow spoke to Jacobin about the steady decline of the “enshittified” internet and what we can do to save it.

Machado’s record makes a mockery of the idea she is a committed champion of peace, promoter of democracy, or unifying figure.

The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US.

I’d read and heard loads about One Battle After Another and invited a friend who came through the long Sixties to see it with me. She has studied the kind

Awarding the Nobel prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai today, the Swedish Academy commended the author’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that,

When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about

Depending on which source you consult, the twenty-point peace plan of President Donald Trump for securing peace in Gaza shows much exultance and

The last couple of months have exposed the humiliating realities of the subordinate alliance that India has been gradually sliding into with the U.S. over

This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.

I heard people who read the column I wrote last week on the AI bubble complain that, by rooting for its collapse, I was hoping for the failure of the U.S.

Ben Hubbard, the long-time Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, is known for his high standards. So too is Karen DeYoung, the long-time reporter and foreign affairs editor for the Washington Post. Yet they, and their editors, share a common,…

Gaza will not forget. The suffocating smoke still hangs over her ruins, thick with the acrid stench of explosives powder and dust carrying the scent of

The history of the Palestinians is a history of betrayal.  In the wake of World War I, Britain and France redrew the map of the Middle East to suit their own ends.  They created countries with artificial borders, which led to unrest and uprisings.  They had…

Milei took office in December 2023, and Argentina has been in deep recession since then. The recession has been caused by extreme fiscal austerity which slashed public services and investment; a hugely over-valued exchange rate which weakened the trade balance;…

Despite court losses, public antipathy, giddy ridicule - unicorns! - and a shutdown they studiously ignore, a nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an America in flames. Their victims include brown parents torn from their…

Students say they simply gathered on campus yesterday and held up posters of Saibaba, who died last year after a decade of wrongful incarceration.

In refusing to bow to the applause of killers, Odeh and Cassif embody what it means to act with conscience in a place built on coercion and military might.