Jacobin
- It’s Okay to Like Geese
Forget Bad Bunny’s halftime show and the Drake lawsuit: if social media is any indication, this year’s biggest music controversy concerns Brooklyn rock band Geese. Geese blew up last year, with their latest album Getting Killed earning rave reviews from Paste and Consequence of Sound before topping year-end best album lists by Stereogum and the
- Will More Warehouses Burn?
“If you’re not going to pay us enough to fucking live, you can at least pay us enough to not do this shit,” the man says as he reaches out with a lighter and ignites a pallet of toilet paper. Minutes later, multiple pallets can be seen burning in a video taken inside the 1.2-million-square-foot
- Mexico Is Going All In for Universal Health Care
At her morning press conference on April 7, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the credencialización process, or enrollment, for Mexico’s new universal health care service was set to begin. The goal, she explained, was unambiguous: “By the time we leave office, any Mexican will be able to go to any public health institution and receive
- Why the Rich Should Get Free Public Childcare Too
Late last month, the New York Times highlighted what might be considered a weakness in Zohran Mamdani’s universal free childcare plan: the rich will get to use it too. The article, titled “They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?,” enumerated the consumerist excesses of a tony Upper East Side neighborhood slated
- The Landless Workers’ Movement, 30 Years After a Massacre
This Friday, the landless workers of Brazil are marching two thousand strong into Salvador, a river of red crawling up the BR-324 highway. They are occupying fazendas in Madalena and in Darcinópolis, where just three years ago a hundred workers languished in modern slavery. And in Pará, three thousand landless move to occupy a stretch
Mother Jones
- A Republican Dark Money Group Blankets Virginia With Deceptive Mailers Ahead of Redistricting Vote
Beginning in early March, Virginia voters, particularly members of the Black community, began receiving mailers that compared a proposal by Democrats to temporarily redraw the state’s congressional districts to the Jim Crow era. One mailer featured images of the KKK in white hoods and teenagers running from police in the 1960s. “Just like Jim Crow,
- Donald Trump’s Latest Crypto Corruption: A Mar-a-Lago Party for His Coin Buyers
Gas prices are sky high. A war in Iran is far from over. Airlines are running out of jet fuel. And the GOP is stumbling into an important midterm season. So who is Donald Trump making time for on his busy schedule? The 297 people most invested in $TRUMP, his meme coin. Trump is once
- Is Donald Trump Going to Hell?
Was that lightning in the distance? The sound of God’s fury thundering over the White House? Probably not. But thanks to a series of incendiary moves by Republican lawmakers, it sure feels as though we’re witnessing the preceding events to some Old Testament plague. They include President Donald Trump insulting Pope Leo XIV, a now-deleted
- A “Humbling” Research Finding: Sperm Whales Communicate Surprisingly Like Us
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales—enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered.
- He Anonymously Threatened Lawmakers Reining in Shady Hospital Deals. Now He’s Been Arrested.
Last week, authorities in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant for a businessman who they believe has run a vitriolic social media account that for years has harassed and threatened critics of America’s largest hospital landlord—Medical Properties Trust (MPT). Last year, Mother Jones and Reveal investigated MPT and found that its business model was sinking hospitals
The Progressive
- What’s Old Is New Again in Utah
State officials want to usher in an ‘accountability era’ for homeless services by reviving a particularly sordid chapter of U.S. history.
- ‘You Can’t Bring that With You’
Attractions that disallow wheeled walkers are facing legal repercussions, as well they should.
- Middle East Tensions Threaten South Asia’s Migrant Workers
Millions of South Asian workers in the Gulf live on the frontlines of geopolitics. The effects of conflict, wage disruptions, and insecurity ripple across families and fragile economies back home.
Z Network
- The Collapse is Real – Lebanon Ceasefire Marks a Historic Strategic Defeat
A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The ceasefire was not the product of American diplomacy, nor Israeli strategic calculation. It was imposed—largely as a result of sustained Iranian pressure. Washington, Tel Aviv, and their allies—including some within Lebanon itself—will continue
- Orbán Has Fallen but Europe’s ‘ICE moment’ is Just Beginning
Hungary may be celebrating Peter Magyar’s unlikely win over Viktor Orbán, yet the former PM’s hardline migration politics has already infected the European psyche – forming part of a broader, deeply concerning pattern brewing across the continent. Even as asylum applications and crossings approach levels last seen in 2015, Europe has undergone a profound shift over the past year,
- For Their Eyes Only?
Back in the relative calm of January, as the media fixated on American threats to invade Greenland, the British government quietly published an intelligence report. Written by a committee of the country’s top spy chiefs, the report warned that within just a few years, the UK could face food shortages and social breakdown. The cause