New Future

Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) used to have a mass base among West Bengal’s landless Muslim peasants. Today, their poor relations symbolize the party’s decline.

We asked scholar Eric Blanc to recommend reading on the party’s contentious relationship to the trade union movement.

Since leaving the White House, Barack Obama has been hard at work in Hollywood with his production company, Higher Ground, which signed a “high eight-figure deal” with Netflix.

Will the West’s record tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles support clean jobs or undermine the global green transition?

The center managed to keep the far right at bay in most of eastern Germany’s recent state elections, but the victory may be short-lived.

Haiti’s capital is in the throes of intense gang warfare.

The South Korean dramas that have hooked viewers around the world combine stark depictions of brutal inequality with opulent commodity fetishism.

Forty years ago, San Francisco dockworkers struck a blow against apartheid by refusing to unload cargo from South Africa.

How AMLO turned an anti-corruption campaign into an opportunity for economic redistribution.

Speculators and supply shocks have sent cocoa prices through the roof — but West African farmers aren’t getting to taste the profits.