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In honor of Bastille Day, a medley of tunes from Peter Brooks' production of Peter Weiss's play, Marat / Sade. Sung by Judy Collins.

Mamdani’s agenda will face serious obstacles. A massive wave of new voters doesn’t just carry you into office. It shifts the landscape, it creates political capital that can be turned toward other ends; changes political calculations for others...

As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran Mamdani in New York.

Israel’s defense minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme that legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

For immigrants on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, documentation does not guarantee access to health care. Rural America is changing rapidly, and immigrants are central to that transformation.

We live in an era in which, from the White House on down, meanness has become normalized, become normalized. Music can provide an antidote, reminding us of who we can be, as anyone listening to Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs will discover.

Readers Comments: Big Death Bill; DOGE Cuts Warnings, Texas Approves Camp Mystic disaster plan two days before flood, DHS Now Cancels Extreme Warning Grants - More Disasters to Come; Zohran Mamdani; New Gaza Flotilla Handala Launches next week; more

How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.

"This bill isn't governance," said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. "This is a class war waged from Capitol Hill."

Though Zohran Mamdani scored a resounding victory in New York City’s Democratic primary, some in his own party are strategizing about how to defeat him in November.