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European insights – Who votes for the left, and why?

Crisis deepens, struggle rises in France and Israel/Palestine

Authoritarianism vs public media, and other fights for the right to know

Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements

Reader Comments: Bank Failures, Deregulation and Fed-Raising Interest Rates; Illegal Invasion of Iraq; Slash Pentagon Budget; Jim Crow South; New Day for UAW; Light Communication; Letters From Langston; US Policy and Taiwan; How Workers Win

Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the US and Europe, Russia and China.

Setting red lines for the world is too important to be left to individual, self-interested countries. 

Is Fox News finished? ...and more burning questions from media land

In the absence of more attention to the supply chain, the U.S. is becoming even more reliant on Beijing—and ‘friendshoring’ often increases that dependence.

The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.