New Future

Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological and environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites hoarding resources like land, research shows.

The Global Samud Flotilla has set sail to break the siege on Gaza, under threat of interception and repression by the Israeli state. In response, Italian dockworkers have announced that they are prepared to shut down the dock of Genoa, should Israel stop the flotilla from delivering aid to Gaza.

For decades the world’s largest rainforest has been getting drier. A new study published in Nature Communications disentangles how much of this shift can be blamed on humanity’s warming of the planet and how much on the felling of trees within the Amazon itself. The answer: More than many had expected.

In nature, many organisms glow in the dark, including lightning bugs, some squid and jellyfish, using light to attract a mate or lure prey. Now, researchers have engineered glowing succulents, plants that recharge in sunlight and shine bright at night, an early step toward living, energy-free light sources.

Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales's poems, Singh writes, are "a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice" a tribute to "the struggle against everything from housing inequity to imperialism. "

You’re a billionaire now, Mr. Springsteen. Please don’t stay one.

If someone like me can get trapped in the cycle of housing instability, anyone can. But the solutions are out there.

Investment giants are buying up homes and pricing real people out of the market. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

People in the United Kingdom really know how to make fun of their ruling class. Here in the States, we could learn something from them.

by Sophie Chemenitski aged 66½ What is the reason that flags really upset me? I grew up in Belfast between 1959 and 1977. I've hardly been back. Flags, in Northern Ireland, are the sign of whether you are a nationalist or a unionist. At first sight, that's fine. People are entitled to their opinions.

Robert Francis challenges the exclusive geopolitical focus fueling skepticism on the Western left towards the Syrian Revolution, arguing for an anti-imperialism built on solidarity.

Donald Trump’s attack on the Fed is part of his authoritarian attempt to capture the administrative state. Economist Mona Ali spoke to Jacobin about the stakes of the current clash between Trump and Lisa Cook and what a democratized Fed could look like.

Camera-trap images from a section of Kafue National Park in Zambia show conservation efforts are paying off: Populations of leopards, wild dogs and lions are all growing, Mongabay contributor Ryan Truscott reported in July. Truscott interviewed Chisomo M’hango, trainee field ecologist at Musekese Conservation , a nonprofit monitoring wildlife in the Musekese-Lumbeya section of the park.

A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Carbon markets and offsets have failed to actually reduce emissions after decades of trying…

As New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have a range of options to encourage large numbers of workers to unionize — essential both for improving working-class living standards in an unaffordable city and building an organized force to win his agenda.

A union representing dockworkers at one of the largest ports in the Mediterranean - a key stopping point for Israeli goods - has said it will ‘block everything’ if Israel stops the inbound aid flotilla. Polly Smythe reports.

Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era — the perfect setting for our downwardly mobile 2025.

Researchers have developed the first model to map how supply and demand interact in Indonesia’s highly lucrative songbird trade, revealing patterns that could help curb poaching pressure on rare and threatened species.

With three leftists winning the landslide victories in the Green leadership election, the party has stopped trying to bridge its centrist and socialist factions and committed to a radical path, writes Adam Ramsay.