Jacobin
- The Dutch Revolt Was Europe’s First Bourgeois Revolution
The Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century defeated the Spanish monarchy, the great European superpower of its day. While it may not be as well remembered as the English Civil War or the French Revolution, it was a watershed moment in the history of modern Europe. It created the Dutch Republic, Europe’s most aggressively commercial
- Deportation Was Always Political
Eleven days before immigration agents shot Alex Pretti dead in the street — before they fired four bullets into his back, paused, and then fired six more into his motionless body — they’d had a prior altercation with him. Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old intensive care unit nurse, had raised his boot and kicked out the taillight
- The Left Could Learn Something From Trump’s Tariff Gambit
By conventional thinking, Donald Trump’s tariff strategy is a failure: he sidestepped Congress, chose a dubious legal rationale to do it, and now the tariffs have been struck down by the Supreme Court, putting his entire trade agenda at risk. But that’s only one way to look at it. Looked at another way, Trump’s tariffs
- I Saw the Roots of Mandelson’s Rise and Fall
When Peter Mandelson was a teenager, he made no secret of his political ambitions. His grandfather, Herbert Morrison, had been deputy prime minister and school friends like me wondered if he would go one better. On one occasion, he showed me a copy of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and was clearly smitten with its tales
- Donald Trump, Warmonger-in-Chief
So they finally did it. Of all the dumb, pointless wars the United States has waged in the Middle East, the one it launched today against Iran may go down as the dumbest and most pointless. This is a war that didn’t need to happen; even the man waging it doesn’t seem to know why
The Real News Network
- Stolen wealth: how Black depositors funded the nation’s capital
D.C. elites siphoned $57 million—worth $1.5 billion today—from the Freedman’s Savings Bank to enrich themselves and fund the development of the District at the expense of formerly enslaved depositors.
- ‘Batshit authoritarianism’: Trump allies drafting order to give him ‘extraordinary power over voting’
“This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters and undermine both the rule of law and public confidence in our elections,” said Sen. Mark Warner.
- Trump says things are great for the uber-rich—but what about us? What about the Epstein Survivors?
Trump’s State of the Union address delivered grandstanding and grievance politics, but few concrete solutions for Americans facing healthcare crises, economic instability, and ever-widening inequality.
The Progressive
- San José State University Should Fight Ruling on Trans Athletes
The weaponization of Title IX to exclude trans women does not remedy the many disparities for women in sports; instead, it exacerbates them.
- Building a Home
A Catholic Worker model for housing moves forward.
- How to Pop Out More Babies
Parents need ongoing support as they’re actually raising the child.
Z Network
- In the Third World War: A Political Lexicon for Today’s Struggles
This is the English translation of the original introduction to our book, Nella Terza guerra mondiale. Un lessico politico per le lotte del presente (DeriveApprodi, 2025). We are now publishing its English translation as a free ebook. Read online the 2026 Preface to the English edition, and download and share the book. In the Third World War: A Political Lexicon
- 21st Century Common Sense, Part 3
It was the summer of 2003. I was employed at the time as the national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network, working towards, we hoped, a progressive, broad-based alternative to the Dems and Reps. But something happened that summer in Europe which changed my life, leading me to leave that IPPN job a year
- The Iranian Left, the Right of Self-Determination, and the Question of Ethnic Particularism
The debate over the “right of nations to self-determination” within segments of the Iranian left is less the result of a concrete analysis of Iran’s social and political structure than a legacy of twentieth-century leftist theoretical traditions, often transferred into the Iranian context without critical reconstruction. In its original historical setting, this concept was a
Occupy.com
- Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
FAIR
- There Are ‘Questions’ About Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’—But Don’t Expect AP to Answer Them
AP tells us in bold letters, “There are many questions about how the board will work.” That implies that AP will be asking them, or care about the answers.
- Western Gangster Journalism Runs Cover for Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in Venezuela
With the White House pushing to impose a semi-colonial protectorate on Venezuela, corporate outlets continue to normalize US imperialist predations.
- Naomi Bethune on Anti-Black History Month?
In the words of Ida B. Wells: “The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.”