On January 3, the United States bombed Venezuela and kidnapped president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. More than 100 people were killed in the attack. In the preceding months the US had ...

Sussan Ley, Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor all reflect different elements within a deeply fragmented right. It's unlikely any of them alone can put a coherent conservative political force back into ...

Putting ourselves out for other people is what being Irish is all about, I found myself telling an English friend. If ...

Our economic system is entirely dependent on growth, or rising levels of income per capita: it is the singular obsession of neoliberal capitalism and all financial institutions. The environmental ...

There is a natural human tendency to assume that your generation has it harder than everyone else. Even by those standards, however, baby boomers (and some older millennials) are on the receiving end ...

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements ...

The rise of social media has disrupted both the media system and political parties. Financial markets gyrate, industries rise and fall at blistering rates, and new life-changing technologies appear ...

One of the most challenging questions of democracy might indeed be: why did so many people vote for Adolf Hitler even though he acted against their interests? Virtually the same can be said for those ...

Recent reporting and commentary in major Western outlets have cast an unusually stark light on the intersection of US foreign ...

The shift from “fix your body” to “love yourself” is framed as feminist progress, but Esra Saleh explains how oppression is ...

Sven Beckert has spent nearly a decade trying to understand the 1,000-year-old thing that capitalism is. "This is a ...

On January 1, 1994, Indigenous peoples from Chiapas, Mexico, rose up. They took control of city halls in towns across the state. They took the state capital San Cristobal de las Casas. And they held ...