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Marijke Colle, Michael Löwy, and Manuel Garí Ramos on about wildfires and the global ecological crisis.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 31, 2026 Michigan Supreme Court upholds the public’s rights to the Great Lakes, orders new review of Line 5 tunnel.  Traverse City, Mich., July 31, 2026 — The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Michigan regulators failed to properly weigh the Great Lakes’ public trust protections and environmental impacts before approving Enbridge... Read more »

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A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.

Once respectable opinion fretted about distinguishing the “deserving” poor from the “undeserving.” Today, as sentiment against the ultrarich surges, the Economist argues that it is in fact billionaires who deserve our gratitude, sympathy, and protection.

The areas of Kashmir under Pakistani administration are supposed to have political autonomy, but that has long been a sham. The Pakistani authorities have responded to popular protests demanding real democracy with brutal repression.

Peru has been home to the world’s most ambitious experiments in participatory democracy. American progressive and democratic socialist mayors should look to them for both inspiration and warning.

Some nationalisations weaken capital; others strengthen it.

At next week’s convention for the National Association of Letter Carriers, a 200,000-strong union of US Postal Service mail carriers, a whole ecosystem of reform groups, slates, and podcasters are pushing for a change in leadership.

Pundits who say politicians should strategically “moderate” their views have a simple problem: the majority viewpoint is often changing. Just look at Matt Yglesias’s advice to Democrats on Israel, where the moderate position rapidly shifted under his feet.

The tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have now burst into the open as a bitter public feud. Two oil-rich absolute monarchies are using much poorer neighbors like Yemen and Sudan as battlegrounds for their destructive proxy wars.

A local's account on why he's suing his own government

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IN DECEMBER 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service, he learned of the rape of a 13-year old boy by Israeli officers while in captivity. In response to U.S. inquiries, the Israeli Government designated the Defense for Children International, the Palestinian organization… Continue reading How Israel has used sexualized violence as a weapon of settler colonialism from 1948 to today

After the conviction of Jair Bolsonaro for trying to overthrow Brazilian democracy, his far-right movement had to find a new presidential candidate. His son Flávio has picked up the baton, but his campaign is already plagued by scandals.

At the redesigned Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the art-world tradition of mistaking spiritual anti-hierarchy for class politics is alive and well. LACMA treats labor as a source of authenticity but ignores its own workers’ demands for a living wage.

In his latest work, Slow Poison, Mahmood Mamdani grapples with Uganda’s decades of authoritarian rule. The book examines the politics of purification and violent exclusion at the heart of fascism in the postcolonial context.

The Greentech revolution makes it possible to pivot rapidly away from fossil fuels. But realizing that possibility requires actually halting and reversing fossil fuel extraction and burning. President Trump is doing everything possible instead to expand such fossil folly – and to crush any efforts to restrain it. But the fight to reduce fossil fuels continues from below.

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350 is a very important number.

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Currently leading in the polls in a major swing state, democratic socialist Francesca Hong has a good shot at becoming Wisconsin’s next governor — and the first socialist governor in US history. We spoke to her about her campaign.

What a 1968 French Trotskyist document gets right about political development — and what it gets dangerously wrong

New books on denial, green colonialism, wildfires, energy, the far right, global crises and our ties to nature

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