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Mayor Zohran Mamdani charged Benjamin Nentayahu with genocide, said he is unwelcome in New York City, and called for his arrest. Two years ago, that would have been unimaginable. Going forward, it should be a litmus test.

Half or more of workers at companies like Starbucks, Target, and Kohl’s are working part-time hours — in Starbucks’s case, one hour fewer per week than they would need to qualify for benefits.

Half or more of workers at companies like Starbucks, Target, and Kohl’s are working part-time hours — in Starbucks’s case, one hour fewer per week than they would need to qualify for benefits.

The case was settled earlier this month, resulting in a $3 million fine and agreement to donate fifty million eggs — basically a slap on the wrist.

The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational. In socialism, they see a formidable foe.

🎶knee deep in the Big Muddy, but the big fool said to push on.🎶

The US has become one of the most violent countries in the developed world, whether you measure that by declining life expectancy, traffic deaths, incarceration rates, or the militarization of police and the resulting civilian deaths. At the same time, we have staggering income inequality contributing to that decline in life expectancy, and we have what the geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls the “anti-state state” — a state that no longer feels it has a duty to protect the society it governs. That combination produces what I borrow from Friedrich Engels to call “social murder.” It’s not one person killing another by hand; it’s underlying structures producing death and harm at scale.

Under Joe Biden, green capitalists primarily sold commodities to help wealthier homeowners decarbonize. Real climate action will require a much more robust public-oriented politics of public investment, public goods, and public ownership.

Since the “war on terror”, the US Army has been increasingly lax in allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join. It’s allowing them to gain combat experience and lay the basis for a militarized far right.

Since the “war on terror”, the US Army has been increasingly lax in allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join. It’s allowing them to gain combat experience and lay the basis for a militarized far right.

It would almost be comical how utterly, miserably wrong these figures have been about this war — almost, if not for the fact that it caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iran, killed and injured hundreds of US service members, and plunged the country and possibly the entire world economy into crisis.

It would almost be comical how utterly, miserably wrong these figures have been about this war — almost, if not for the fact that it caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iran, killed and injured hundreds of US service members, and plunged the country and possibly the entire world economy into crisis.

Rates of homicide, gun violence, suicide, drug overdoses, incarceration, traffic deaths, poverty, and police use of force are exceptionally high in the United States compared to those of other Western countries. In a historic reversal, US life expectancy has fallen below that of much poorer countries as a growing number of people in this country are at risk of losing their homes, health, livelihoods, and savings. Tens of millions of US gun owners are locked and loaded, ready to take the law into their own hands or to turn their guns on themselves.

A movement can be working class in three senses. First, it can be a movement for working-class interests. Second, it can be a movement that seeks to organize the working class as the social force best equipped to achieve its political goals. Third, it can have already succeeded in mobilizing that constituency, whether from the outset or through a sustained campaign. None of the critics writing “DSA isn’t really working class” op-eds make these basic distinctions.

As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and embracing exclusionary nationalism to exploit its underclass.

Rates of homicide, gun violence, suicide, drug overdoses, incarceration, traffic deaths, poverty, and police use of force are exceptionally high in the United States compared to those of other Western countries. In a historic reversal, US life expectancy has fallen below that of much poorer countries as a growing number of people in this country are at risk of losing their homes, health, livelihoods, and savings. Tens of millions of US gun owners are locked and loaded, ready to take the law into their own hands or to turn their guns on themselves.

Rates of homicide, gun violence, suicide, drug overdoses, incarceration, traffic deaths, poverty, and police use of force are exceptionally high in the United States compared to those of other Western countries. In a historic reversal, US life expectancy has fallen below that of much poorer countries as a growing number of people in this country are at risk of losing their homes, health, livelihoods, and savings. Tens of millions of US gun owners are locked and loaded, ready to take the law into their own hands or to turn their guns on themselves.

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This is little consolation, though. The real paradox is that much of the money with which private equity has run companies into the ground, laid off workers, and turned essential services into cash cows actually comes from pension funds and university endowments: that is, institutions of the welfare state originally intended to provide workers with a safety net. Not only has private equity made the life of many of them significantly worse; if and when it goes bust, it will be regular people who will ultimately bear the cost. Better to dismantle the system before that happens.

Tuesday’s election showed us three things: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s victory was not a fluke, grassroots organizing by progressive groups and unions can overcome big money, and unapologetic support for Palestinian freedom can be a winning campaign message.

In the spring of 2024, many members of Congress were practically tripping over themselves to condemn and silence antiwar student protesters who were building encampments on their college campuses, calling for their schools to divest from Israel and its genocide of Palestinians. On Columbia University’s campus, the heart of the encampment movement, was alumna Darializa Avila Chevalier. She wore a kuffiyeh, was arrested alongside the students, and supported them as they faced eviction and expulsion — and derision from the highest lawmakers in the country. Now, Darializa is about to become a member of Congress.

Ten years ago, in response to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the repression of the Arab Spring, the EU instigated the “hotspot” policy. As I wrote back then, the term “hotspot” can be traced back to New York’s 1980s zero-tolerance policy and the first introduction of computing into police operations. The idea was that instead of responding to crimes after they happen, police units sit and wait at predicted “hotspots” to intervene before a crime happens. In 2016, the name was applied to a new method of detaining people on arrival in Europe, enforcing mass fingerprinting, screenings, and smuggling investigations. The “crime” was illegal entrance, the “heat” was simply people, and the “spots” were Mediterranean islands, from Lesbos to Lampedusa. For a decade, the hotspots have staggered onward without any proper definition under EU or national laws, a legal limbo in a political mess.

Experiments with a shorter workweek have shown that shown that working fewer hours improves worker well-being and productivity. But we can’t expect employers to implement this transformative change of their own volition.

After freezing payments and demanding client data, the Trump administration attempted to raid the nonprofit offices of attorneys for unaccompanied immigrant children last week as its anti-migrant campaign increasingly turns its focus toward minors.

After freezing payments and demanding client data, the Trump administration attempted to raid the nonprofit offices of attorneys for unaccompanied immigrant children last week as its anti-migrant campaign increasingly turns its focus toward minors.

China has witnessed the greatest stretch of sustained growth and poverty alleviation in human history, made possible by the brutal exploitation of millions workers. A new book recounts the life of one of them offering a glimpse into the dark side of China’s success.

China has witnessed the greatest stretch of sustained growth and poverty alleviation in human history, made possible by the brutal exploitation of millions workers. A new book recounts the life of one of them offering a glimpse into the dark side of China’s success.

Beneath the spectacle of fighters beating each other bloody on the White House South Lawn, fight promoters, tech billionaires, and the Saudi government are working to concentrate wealth and power in fewer, richer hands.

Beneath the spectacle of fighters beating each other bloody on the White House South Lawn, fight promoters, tech billionaires, and the Saudi government are working to concentrate wealth and power in fewer, richer hands.

Rideshare apps Uber and Lyft are battling thousands of injury and sexual assault lawsuits. A must-pass transportation bill in Congress includes an industry-friendly carveout that would give the companies legal immunity from car crashes and injuries.

Why would any work towards making their tech better when you can just free yourself from the consequences of its mistakes.

Democrats say they are a bulwark against rising authoritarianism. Why, then, did some of New York’s most powerful Democratic leaders like Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Chuck Schumer march with war criminals and self-described fascists from Israel?

Donald Trump isn’t so much “sportswashing” as using the World Cup to show off the United States’ ability to discriminate against other teams and their fans.

Donald Trump isn’t so much “sportswashing” as using the World Cup to show off the United States’ ability to discriminate against other teams and their fans.

However, amid Obama’s media tour unveiling his new $850 million presidential center, documents obtained by Zeteo and the Lever through an open records request show Obama as president scoffing at demands that he more forcefully navigate those same barriers on health care policy, when he and his party controlled the White House and large majorities in Congress.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, it quickly broke records as the fastest growing technology product in history. AI model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google initially used artificially low flat-rate pricing to drive adoption and capture market share, trusting that they could burn investor capital to manufacture dependency and then monetize a captive user base. But compared to the other consumer-facing platforms that had run this playbook since the 2000s, such as Facebook, Uber, or Instagram, generative AI differs in two critical respects.

For years, AI companies promised their product would become a democratized and abundant utility. But as the sector pivots toward business clients and financial and environmental costs rise, the question is whether its unequal gains justify the price.

CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was asked whether all the controversies surrounding US Senate candidate Graham Platner mean he doesn’t “pass the character test.” Murphy offered a subtly radical answer: “Character involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.” It was an echo of Rep. Ro Khanna, who credited Platner with “having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair & lopsided economy.”

In the 2024 election cycle, the Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC gave liberally to VoteVets, a political action committee (PAC) focused on veterans advocacy. VoteVets shares many of the same go-to vendors as the various arms of Schumer’s spending operation and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.

The State Financial Officers Foundation claims to be a nonpartisan, neutral body representing the guardians of state finances. In truth, the corporate donor–dependent nonprofit pushes a right-wing austerity agenda under the guise of fighting fraud.

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.

A new study reveals that employers are spending big to maintain their dictatorial control over the workplace and crush unions. It’s a daunting amount of money, but it’s not impossible to overcome if workers can act with clarity, unity, and strategy.

Unlike Germany’s numerous amorphous groups from the autonomous tradition, however, Rote Hilfe operates as a legal organization in compliance with federal law. It is registered as an association, has an official HQ, and maintains an elected federal executive committee as well as local chapters and activities in the public sphere. Although it is regularly attacked by Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and features prominently in reports by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it is not a banned organization. This makes the repression it is currently facing all the more astonishing.

Finn Green works for the US Post Office as a rural carrier associate in and around Ojai, California. On a typical Monday, Green and other rural postal carriers deliver Amazon packages for hours without overtime pay. When mail volume is higher, such as days following legal holiday weekends and holiday seasons, carriers are ordered to prioritize Amazon parcels over Express and Registered mail, the US Postal Service’s (USPS) most expensive products. Only after completing the Amazon deliveries may carriers return to their regular route to deliver USPS mail.

In Bolivia, the unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines peasant and indigenous land rights.

Bedard is invoking a now-familiar argument among American liberals — namely that their party should always be pitching compromises rather than making maximalist demands. And perhaps at the end of drawn-out legislative fights, that logic occasionally might make a bit of sense. But what’s new here is that this argument — which had resulted in so many surrenders, including Barack Obama’s surrender of his single payer promise and then his public option promise — is now being made by liberals even before Democrats are in any kind of policy fight at all.

Today we’re dealing with a situation where leaders are ready to sacrifice democracy, the rule of law, individual freedoms, and freedom of expression in order to protect an order — a colonial order — which is one of unconditional support for the State of Israel.

Over four years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, some of the Russians imprisoned in its early days are still in jail. Even people with no previous political activism have been landed with long prison sentences in order to crush dissent.

I’ve got Trump Phone V2 now ready for deposits.

I’ve got Trump Phone V2 now ready for deposits.

I’ve got Trump Phone V2 now ready for deposits.

After the Gallup poll was released, one prominent Twitter economist lamented that “people are mad about data centers, they’re mad about warehouses. Boy if neoliberalism hadn’t killed all the factories people would be mad about them too.”

The reason cities and towns are left battling among themselves in the thunderdome of housing policy is that state and federal governments have refused to take meaningful action to address the housing crisis. To give just one example, for years the state legislature in Massachusetts has been unable to pass a real estate transfer-fee bill allowing communities to place a small fee on the sale of multimillion-dollar homes to fund affordable housing.

The cascade of celebratory coverage is not a string of coincidences. This is what elite consensus looks like when it forms in real time. It does not require a mastermind issuing instructions; a shared interest among the people who own newspapers, finance political campaigns, and decide whose interviews land on the cover is enough. Everything suggests that their interest, in 2026, is preventing the Italian center-left from arriving in office in 2027 with Schlein, Conte, and AVS dictating the terms of the new government.