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At the national level, the New Democratic Party is down, but it is not out. And Lewis represents its best chance for renewal and success

FIFA has always loved dictatorships. Italy was chosen in 1934 because fascism would ensure discipline. When the Soviet Union refused to play a 1973 match in Pinochet’s Chile (because the pitch was a concentration camp), FIFA disqualified the USSR.

I don’t believe you can be a non-feminist Marxist if you want to think about capitalism today, because you have to understand how gender and a patriarchal system are intertwined to shape who workers are.

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You cannot negotiate with a regime you are trying to destroy. Trump’s oscillation between threatening to blast Iran “back to the Stone Ages” and describing “very good and productive conversations” is the logical endpoint of an incoherent strategy.

Orbán has brought together a mind-boggling assortment of elites in the cause of ethno-nationalistic anti-liberalism—a cause, clearly, that can unite communists and capitalists, Jews and antisemites.

Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades.

Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.

The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them. Taxing the rich to save social insurance has the further virtue of splitting Republicans, who are divided....