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The unfolding conflict between Pakistan and India needs to be handled with the utmost care and competence.

With local and national elites indifferent to working-class struggles over the costs of housing, childcare, groceries, and more, socialist NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani is finding success by putting affordability at the heart of his campaign.

"Right, because the U.S. occupation of Iraq is certainly the best-case scenario for Gaza today," one critic quipped.

ICE is reading from an old textbook

The importance of progressive populism

A former oversight staffer on how to generate attention from Capitol Hill for working-class issues

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, he recovered the history of vanquished radicals like the Levellers and the Diggers and linked them to our own time.

The Antisemitism Awareness Act has never been about countering antisemitism or protecting Jewish students from discrimination; it is about silencing pro-Palestine students and protecting the Israeli government from criticism.

Western donors are cutting budgets, but the aid model they built—rooted in control and dependency —still shapes Africa’s development. As aid shrinks, the work ahead is not just to survive the cuts, but also to refuse the system that made them matter.

Eleanor J. Bader explores with Four Mothers author Abigail Leonard how national policies and cultural norms in Finland, Japan, Kenya and the U.S. shape the first year of motherhood—and redefine what it means to parent in vastly different societies.