Gaza Seizure Threats as Anti-Hamas Protests Continue

Israeli PM warns of seizure of territories and ‘other measures’ if Hamas refuses to release remaining hostages

The Real Yemen Scandal Has Zero To Do With Goldberg

The press is mostly framing the Yemen group chat scandal as a story of incompetence. There’s little attention being paid to the deadliness, illegality, and ineffectiveness of the strikes themselves.

Call It the ‘Dismantling Government Act’: New GOP Bill

"This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further," said the leader of one government watchdog group.

Democrats Just Flipped a Massively Pro-Trump District

Democrats scored key victories in Pennsylvania.

Global Left Midweek – March 26, 2025

The world economy is going through some stuff

The Wisconsin Court Election And Elon Musk’s Money

Liberals and conservatives face off in the most political apolitical race in the country.

Musk Is Demolishing the Rationale for Citizens United

The Supreme Court said in 2010 that the decision wouldn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy. Whoops.

What Comes After Globalization?

The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.

Donald and Pete on the Worst Group Chat Ever

We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neither

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 25, 2025

A win for trans rights... in Montana!
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Culture

books

The Mystery of Neil Gorsuch

Andrew Koppelman Los Angeles Review of Books
"The principal virtue of the book," writes reviewer Koppelman, "is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions."

film

Black Bag: Not Much To See Here

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.

food

Cheesy Terroir-Ism: The ABCs of AOCs

Matthew Wills Jstor.org
Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.

tv

Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American corporate structure, it’s easy to see why.

poetry

Nothing Important

Peter Neil Carroll The Truth Lies on Earth: a Year by Dark, by Bright
Poet Peter Carroll reminds us why we celebrate the arrival of spring.

books

On Trump’s Effort To Undo Free Speech

Lloyd Green The Guardian
This book examines efforts of the network of Trump, government members, and the ultra-rich, to overturn Times v. Sullivan, the SCOTUS decision that made it hard for politicians to sue the press for defamation.

Labor

labor

Unions Rise As America’s Defiant Shield Against Trump’s Authoritarianism

Euan Gibb & Ethan T. Young Public Service International
As it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump presidency means, America's labor movement has positioned itself as democracy's strongest, most important and best-organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda.

labor

Let Workers Lead

Jane Slaughter Jacobin
The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.

labor

Wells Fargo Is Plotting To Privatize the Post Office

Paul Prescod Jacobin
A newly released memo from the banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the USPS: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs, and raise prices by up to 140 percent.

Friday nite video

video

Stripped for Parts | Documentary

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why-- until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Sign up for March 29 streaming of full documentary.

video

Why the US Has Birthright Citizenship

The short answer is that birthright citizenship in the US came about as a way of granting citizenship after the American Civil War to the large population of formerly enslaved Black people