Jacobin
- Donald Trump Is Kneecapping Corporate Oversight
Amid President Donald Trump’s frenzied deregulation of financial markets, his administration just stacked the country’s top watchdog of corporate auditors with Trump loyalists and former executives of the companies they will now oversee. Designed to prevent another Enron catastrophe, the watchdog organization supervises the handful of big auditors that dominate the space and ensures major
- The Blueprint for a Nationwide Immigrant Strike
You don’t have to imagine what a nationwide strike in defense of immigrants could look like. It’s already happened. Everyone looking to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today has a lot to learn from the explosive mass movement that culminated in the “Day Without an Immigrant” on May 1, 2006. The spark was H.R.
- In Chile, Starbucks Workers Have a National Union Contract
Starbucks has signed union contracts almost nowhere, but in Chile, workers have a national agreement covering 176 stores. They were the first in the world to unionize, in 2009. In the United States, workers at 550 stores finally brought Starbucks to the bargaining table in 2024 and in November last year they began a boycott
- Kathy Hochul Is a Good Problem for Zohran Mamdani to Have
On Thursday morning, democratic socialist New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed centrist governor Kathy Hochul for reelection, explaining his decision to the Left with an op-ed in the Nation. The move reflected the mayor’s close relationship with the centrist governor, a partnership that Mamdani argues is crucial to delivering on the affordability agenda he
- Taylor Rehmet Shows Working-Class Politics Can Win Everywhere
“No one is coming to save labor, so we might as well do it ourselves,” said Taylor Rehmet in a video shared by the Texas AFL-CIO. This one sentence sums up Rehmet’s campaign for state senate in Texas’s Ninth District, which covers a large swath of Fort Worth and its northern suburbs. Rehmet, a union
Mother Jones
- The FBI’s Fulton County Raid Was Based on Debunked Claims By Election Deniers
On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI finally released a court-ordered affidavit showing the basis for its January raid seizing nearly 700 boxes of ballots and voting records from the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia. A judge signed off on the raid after the FBI alleged “evidence of a commission of a criminal offense” relating to
- ACLU’s Lawsuit Over ICE Raid at an Idaho Racetrack Could Be a Game Changer
In a small Idaho town, a 10-year-old girl I’ll call A.S.P. was cozied up in her family’s pickup truck outside La Catedral racetrack, where she and her dad were looking forward to a day of festivities. It was a Sunday in October, and families in this predominantly Latino town, Wilder, were there to cheer on
- Jeffrey Epstein Couldn’t Stop Emailing People About Eugenics
Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails made available by the Department of Justice, themes of genes, genetics, and IQ—alongside more explicit threads of white supremacy—keep cropping up, often adjacent to Epstein’s fascination with steering research in the biological sciences. Those newly released emails include a
- The Political World of Caregiving
It’s an old adage: when people get married, they promise to stick together “in sickness and in health.” But that’s easier said than done when you’re caregiving for a spouse or long-term partner, when systemic failures often lead to burnout. In her new book, In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines
- Immigration Court Blocks Trump From Deporting Pro-Palestine Tufts Student
An immigration judge dropped a deportation case against Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested by masked and plainclothes federal agents nearly a year ago, according to a letter from her lawyers on Monday. In March 2024, Öztürk was one of four authors of an op-ed in Tufts’ student newspaper, Tufts Daily,
The Real News Network
- Inside the right-wing movement pushing Alberta to secede from Canada
Trump officials have repeatedly met with secessionist leaders from the province, which has large oil and gas deposits.
- Israel’s US-backed assault on Gaza set stage for collective punishment in Cuba, AOC says
“This is a new kind of era of depravity opened up,” said the congresswoman. “There was this stated commitment on human rights—that innocent civilians were almost exempt from the rules of war, from blockades.”
- Bannon calls for ICE to engage in voter intimidation during the midterms
“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” former Trump strategist Steve Bannon said.
The Progressive
- The Real Threat to Arctic Security
Conflict in the Arctic is entirely avoidable and unnecessary.
- The Uphill Battle of Navigating a Broken Immigration System
Seeking asylum is a human right. But in the United States, this path to citizenship is long, confusing, and treacherous.
- The Super Bowl Is a Trigger for Domestic Violence
The major sporting event exposes our society’s indifference to violence against women.
Z Network
- Workers and Working Time in Germany in 2006
Recently, the staunchly anti-communist supporter of neoliberalism, ex-BlackRock hedge fund manager and now Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, told Germans to work more – that is what Germany needs. But rather than being aligned with most Germans, conservative Merz seems to be off the mark. Meanwhile, the hard-working businessman Merz — who last took the rubbish
- An Assessment of Noam Chomsky on the Jeffrey Epstein Files
The second batch of documents allegedly belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire convicted child abuser, serial rapist, and human trafficker whose suicide in prison in 2019 was deemed suspicious, was released by the US Department of Justice on January 30. Epstein was known for his close relationships with the super-privileged, including high-level politicians such as
- Chomsky-Epstein Saga: Some Additional Reflections
This is a follow up post to, “A Response To Greg Grandin’s Chomsky-Epstein Article” published on Feb 6, 2026. Valeria Chomsky’s statement on the Chomsky Epstein saga is out, and should confirm what any rational person should have known. The Chomskys did not know about Epstein’s horrific crimes until after his arrest, and when they
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
- Leading Papers Call for Destroying Iran to Save It
The New York Times and Washington Post offer facile arguments for US attacks on Iran, on the assumption that the US wants to brighten Iranians' futures.
- Rupert Murdoch Heads West
The strategy of Rupert Murdoch, always arch-conservative in his politics, has been to start or take over and use media to further his political viewpoint.
- For NYT’s David Brooks, It’s Way Past Time to Say Goodbye
Brooks has served as an apologist for the ruling class, whose crimes and errors of judgement he is always ready to trivialize and forgive.
Counterpunch
- Washington’s Cult of the Bomb
The first of the bombs used against Japan, the one that flattened Hiroshima, produced a blast equivalent to about 15,000 tons of TNT and killed tens of thousands of innocent people in minutes. Fast-forward to the ‘70s: the United States’ B83 bomb “is by far the most destructive weapon in the US nuclear arsenal,” capable of producing an explosion about 80 times stronger than the one used against Hiroshima. And we have seen nuclear weapons even more fathomlessly destructive: the Soviet Union produced a weapon, called Tsar Bomba, whose “detonation was astronomically powerful—over 1,570 times more powerful, in fact, than the combined two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Today’s nuclear bombs do not operate the way that the “fat man” bombs of WW2 did, but use bombs like those as triggering devices to set off much larger explosions. It’s important for us to understand that a nuclear exchange today could well end human civilization. It could even end human life altogether. More The post Washington’s Cult of the Bomb appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- The Media is Whitewashing Trump’s Board of Peace
Imagine telling someone who has experienced the most apocalyptic conditions known to man to give their perpetrators a “chance.” That’s exactly what it felt like when I opened my phone the other day and saw headlines from The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal talking about Trump’s sham “Board of Peace,” which is supposed to More The post The Media is Whitewashing Trump’s Board of Peace appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- If Trump Wants Middle East Kudos, He’s Gotta Get More Aid into Gaza
Donald Trump may be able to claim credit for opening the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt – thus allowing potentially thousands of Palestinians desperately seeking medical care to leave to get it – but if he wants kudos for his Gaza policies, this is not enough. When the crossing opened February2, Israel only allowed More The post If Trump Wants Middle East Kudos, He’s Gotta Get More Aid into Gaza appeared first on CounterPunch.org.