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On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living.

Germany's big surprises

This is only the beginning. This is what three decades of inaction and insufficient action have produced. Ludicrous would be allowing the US, under the grasp of a handful of villainous, ecocide billionaires and ideologues, to drag us into the abyss

Political trends are shifting faster than we might think

A historically hot summer is revealing a society massively unprepared for a new climate reality. A concrete jungle such as Paris, or any French city center, is a built environment conceived for the far more temperate climate of a preindustrial world

A progress report on trans-Atlantic comparisons

Thinking and rethinking

I came back from China impressed, troubled, and more convinced than before that the most important political battles of the coming decades will be fought not over ideology, but over infrastructure.

In 1949, Paul Robeson performed the “Song of the Jewish Partisans” in Moscow, in the Yiddish original. At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand against any form of racism.