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New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream

A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.

How Nepal’s Gen Z Used Gaming App To Pick PM

It was a first for an electoral democracy. Backers say it is more transparent than what politicians do. But it has risks.

Black Voices Are Vital to Democracy.

The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah is the latest prominent Black journalist to lose her job. The trend is a sign of retrenchment in both fighting racism and saving democracy.

Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked

Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.

Media Bits and Bites – September 16, 2025

Murder by meme

Right Trying to Use Kirk Murder to 'Destroy Dissent'

“I hope I’m wrong. But we need to be prepared if I’m right,” warned Sen. Chris Murphy.

This Week in People’s History, Sep 17–23, 2025

U.S. Marines firing on unarmed Haitian demonstrators
No Way Out for Haiti (1915), Slavers Flex Political Muscles (1850), Decades of Struggle Wins! (1935), Racial Justice Doesn’t Come Easy (1975), A Boycott on Steroids (1939), ‘We Believe in Farmers’ (1985), No ‘Justice’ for Emmett Till (1955)

France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement

Before it ends up being repressed, the wind of revolt sweeping through the squares of France must be transformed into a comprehensive, alternative economic policy project.

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.

Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead.

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.
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Culture

food

The Great Parmesan Cheese Enigma

Willa Paskin Slate
According to historian Alberto Grandi, if you want to eat the original Parmigiano like our great-grandparents used to eat, you should go to Milwaukee or Madison.

poetry

Los Vecinos

Alison Luterman
Poet Alison Luterman offers us lessons in neighborliness.

books

Marx’s Last Studies

Charles Reitz Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Between 1879 and 1882, Marx studied the latest research and writing on communal clan-based social formations around the globe, focusing on the changing nature of land ownership and gender and family relations within these societies.

film

Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era — the perfect setting for downwardly mobile 2025

Labor

labor

Solace, Resistance, Action at APALA’s 2025 Convention

Paige Hazen The Stand
The APALA Convention served as a reminder that although there is a long way to go before the labor movement reaches its potential as the strong defense it could be against attacks on immigrants, there exists a start within our own communities.

Friday nite video

The Real Problems with America’s Health

MAHA? How unhealthy is the United States? Some key figures show how the US compares to other countries in life expectancy, early deaths and chronic disease.

European Security Depends Upon Ukraine

It is a mistake to consider Ukrainian security as an issue separate from the construction of a new European security order, where Europe can defend itself without the United States

video

We Got 18,000 of Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails

Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold and Ava Benny-Morrison with host David Gura on the massive trove of emails — what they tell us about Epstein, his powerful network, and Ghislaine Maxwell