How Devaluing Palestinian Lives Became a Western Obsession

Openly racist attitudes to the Palestinian people are pervasive in the Euro-American political mainstream, from the liberal center to the far right. This form of bigotry is a gateway through which old-fashioned colonial racism can gain new legitimacy.

Will the Next President Help Banks Trap Customers?

Wall Street CEOs are courting both the Trump and Harris campaigns. If their effort succeeds, a new rule that makes it easier for customers to change banks will almost certainly be on the chopping block.

The GOP Playbook for Sabotaging Environmental Regulations

As climate disasters intensify, conservative politicians are systematically undermining the agencies meant to protect us — slashing budgets, firing experts, blocking climate data from informing policy, and weakening enforcement against corporate polluters.

Kurds Have Good Reason to Fear Trump — And Harris

Donald Trump’s presidency was bad news for the Kurdish movement, as Washington abandoned Rojava and gave NATO ally Turkey a free hand in the region. But Joe Biden continued to allow Turkish impunity — and Kurds fear Kamala Harris will do the same.

In Puerto Rico, the Establishment Right Is Rallying Against the Left

For years, Puerto Rico’s right-wing establishment has branded the Left as “communists” seeking to impoverish the island by isolating it from the US. Yet decades of economic mismanagement have discredited the Right and strengthened the populist Alliance.

Can There Be a Guernica for Gaza?

The album NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a statement on political art in wartime. Its aim is to speak to our collective horror when faced with a genocide streamed in real time.

Dear NHL, We Can’t See the Ice Through the Ads

Under the NHL’s new ad regime, the puck never crosses a line without a viewer being bombarded with a garish billboard.

The Far Right’s Weird Obsession With Kamala Harris’s IQ

The refrain from the Donald Trump campaign that Kamala Harris has a “low IQ” showcases the Right’s mainstreaming of quack racist pseudoscience.

Reckoning With the Left’s Many Failures

Despite all our expressions of moral outrage at Israel’s horrors in Gaza, we have yet to build a movement that can stop the genocide, writes Waleed Shahid. Building such a movement should be our top priority.

Social Democracy Without Workers on Canada’s West Coast

British Columbia’s social democrats, the New Democratic Party, have eked out a victory in the face of a right-wing populist surge that signals growing class dealignment. The party needs to win back its historic working-class base.

The Mass Deaths in Spain Aren’t Just a Natural Disaster

At least 95 people died in flash floods in eastern Spain on Tuesday. Far fewer could have died in the Valencia region if its right-wing government had prepared civil protection measures — and if bosses hadn’t insisted that workers come into work.

The Radicalization of Ta-Nehisi Coates

The argument of Ta-Nehisi’s Coates’s latest book, The Message, is that Israel is not and will never be a democracy. He describes the racist hierarchy on which Israel was founded in terms that are hard to dismiss.

Keir Starmer Will Always Side With Capital Against Workers

A recent controversy involving DP World showed how keen Keir Starmer’s government is to prostrate itself before firms that trample over workers’ rights. Starmer’s economic agenda relies heavily on “de-risking” private investment with public money.

A Matter of Degrees

Trump’s strength with non-college-educated voters is sinking progressives.

How Devaluing Palestinian Lives Became a Western Obsession

Openly racist attitudes to the Palestinian people are pervasive in the Euro-American political mainstream, from the liberal center to the far right. This form of bigotry is a gateway through which old-fashioned colonial racism can gain new legitimacy.

Will the Next President Help Banks Trap Customers?

Wall Street CEOs are courting both the Trump and Harris campaigns. If their effort succeeds, a new rule that makes it easier for customers to change banks will almost certainly be on the chopping block.

The GOP Playbook for Sabotaging Environmental Regulations

As climate disasters intensify, conservative politicians are systematically undermining the agencies meant to protect us — slashing budgets, firing experts, blocking climate data from informing policy, and weakening enforcement against corporate polluters.

Kurds Have Good Reason to Fear Trump — And Harris

Donald Trump’s presidency was bad news for the Kurdish movement, as Washington abandoned Rojava and gave NATO ally Turkey a free hand in the region. But Joe Biden continued to allow Turkish impunity — and Kurds fear Kamala Harris will do the same.

In Puerto Rico, the Establishment Right Is Rallying Against the Left

For years, Puerto Rico’s right-wing establishment has branded the Left as “communists” seeking to impoverish the island by isolating it from the US. Yet decades of economic mismanagement have discredited the Right and strengthened the populist Alliance.

Can There Be a Guernica for Gaza?

The album NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a statement on political art in wartime. Its aim is to speak to our collective horror when faced with a genocide streamed in real time.

Dear NHL, We Can’t See the Ice Through the Ads

Under the NHL’s new ad regime, the puck never crosses a line without a viewer being bombarded with a garish billboard.

The Far Right’s Weird Obsession With Kamala Harris’s IQ

The refrain from the Donald Trump campaign that Kamala Harris has a “low IQ” showcases the Right’s mainstreaming of quack racist pseudoscience.

Reckoning With the Left’s Many Failures

Despite all our expressions of moral outrage at Israel’s horrors in Gaza, we have yet to build a movement that can stop the genocide, writes Waleed Shahid. Building such a movement should be our top priority.

Social Democracy Without Workers on Canada’s West Coast

British Columbia’s social democrats, the New Democratic Party, have eked out a victory in the face of a right-wing populist surge that signals growing class dealignment. The party needs to win back its historic working-class base.

The Mass Deaths in Spain Aren’t Just a Natural Disaster

At least 95 people died in flash floods in eastern Spain on Tuesday. Far fewer could have died in the Valencia region if its right-wing government had prepared civil protection measures — and if bosses hadn’t insisted that workers come into work.

The Radicalization of Ta-Nehisi Coates

The argument of Ta-Nehisi’s Coates’s latest book, The Message, is that Israel is not and will never be a democracy. He describes the racist hierarchy on which Israel was founded in terms that are hard to dismiss.

Keir Starmer Will Always Side With Capital Against Workers

A recent controversy involving DP World showed how keen Keir Starmer’s government is to prostrate itself before firms that trample over workers’ rights. Starmer’s economic agenda relies heavily on “de-risking” private investment with public money.

A Matter of Degrees

Trump’s strength with non-college-educated voters is sinking progressives.