The Left’s Housing Civil War Is Ending

Liam Dillon, Janaki Chadha Politico
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani are embracing a mix of housing policy ideas that could permanently reshuffle urban politics.

Whatever It Takes

David B. Green The American Prospect
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to great lengths to cling to power.

Iran Transformed

Arang Keshavarzian The New York Review of Books
To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

A First Lady in a New York Cell

Medea Benjamin and Michelle Ellner Counter Currents
Cilia Flores brought feminism to the Bolivarian Revolution. She is one of the most prominent political prisoners in the world, yet most women’s rights organizations have not said a word in her defense.

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need To Reckon With the American War Machine

Negin Owliaei Truthout
Would we be here if there were any real repercussions for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, or the continuing genocide in Palestine? We need true accountability for these crimes. And the only way to get it is to wage a struggle against militarism every day.

From Mogadishu to Minneapolis

Elizabeth Schmidt Africa is a Country
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.