Jacobin
- Jonathan Demme’s Wild, Humanist Cinema Deserves a Reappraisal
The Criterion Channel’s new Jonathan Demme retrospective is a chance to look beyond The Silence of the Lambs and rediscover one of America’s most adventurous, surprising, and charming filmmakers.
- Hollywood Is Losing Not Just Jobs but Entire Lineages
Runaway production isn’t just costing Hollywood jobs. It’s severing the intergenerational chains along which film crafts are passed down, replacing an industry town’s living inheritance with a dislocated workforce that must always start from scratch.
- Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
Two University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer.
- The Deadly Military-Vet-to-ICE Pipeline
US police have long recruited military veterans with conditions that make them prone to violence and aggression. The problem is even worse when it comes to ICE, whose leaders valorize brutality and allow officers to kill with impunity.
- The US Beats Europe — in Wasteful Health Care Spending
People sometimes point to individual consumption to argue that the US is better off than Western Europe. But this comparison neglects how much more unequal the US is and how much more money we burn in our irrational private health care system.
Mother Jones
- What Is the White House Hiding in Its Minerals Deals?
Today, the consumer protection watchdog group Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration’s secretive web of critical minerals deals around the world. The report, exclusively shared with Mother Jones, shows that the number of deals the administration has publicly claimed to have does not match up with the number of countries known to
- Rep. Max Miller Has a History of Withholding His Daughter’s Blue Bunny
“Max, Can REDACTED please have her bunny back? She’s had it since birth, sleeps with it every night, carries it with her around the house…Please don’t punish REDACTED if you’re upset with me,” Emily Moreno once wrote in an email to her ex-husband, Republican Rep. Max Miller. Miller, the Ohio lawmaker who has recently been
- A Commission Monitoring Human Rights Violations Is Concerned About the US
On Tuesday afternoon, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights convened in Washington, DC, to hear complaints about excessive use of force and suppression of freedom of expression during protests against immigration enforcement in American cities. One of those who attended and testified at the public hearing was Antonio Romanucci, a Chicago-based civil rights litigation lawyer
- What AI Regulation and Ownership Could Be
As an ordinary internet user, I am skeptical about AI. My colleagues and I have reported on several harmful aspects of the technology in the US: threats to democracy, its impact on the environment, mental health, the workforce, military intervention—the list goes on. While researching the gaps in conversations around enforceable government regulation of AI
- She Followed ICE’s Advice to Self-Deport. Five Weeks Later, She Was Dead.
When 27-year-old Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz took her three daughters and boarded a plane from St. Louis to Guatemala City on June 17, her friends begged her not to go. But Glendy had no other option: Her husband, Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz, who worked as a roofer and was the family’s breadwinner, had
The Real News Network
- Economist Baker explains: AI bubble is about to burst
AI companies promised a revolution. But is it delivering, or is it the next big bubble about to burst?
- Richard Wolff: Why Europe’s Leaders Are Provoking War with Russia
The whole world watches as China, Russia, and their allies square off against the US and whatever allies it retains.
- Senators urge regulator to ‘crack down on prediction markets’ amid wildfire betting
“These markets risk creating perverse incentives, undermining public trust, and commodifying human suffering in ways that warrant careful scrutiny.”
The Progressive
- The Battle for Delaney Hall
The immigration detention facility is notorious for mistreatment. Inside and outside, people fought back.
- The Equity Docket: ‘Colorblindness’ on the Court
The Supreme Court’s logic of colorblindness leaves Black and brown people behind.
- Despite Destruction, a Farmer in Gaza Persists
Israeli bombardment has destroyed most agricultural land in Gaza, but Mohammad Al-Jadba has remained steadfast in his commitment to his land and livelihood.
Z Network
- A Bad Deal With Saudi Arabia
A Deal Without Safeguards The Trump administration has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia under which the US will provide the material and technical capacity for that country to build a nuclear power plant. The deal, said to last 30 years, gives US nuclear energy companies, specifically Westinghouse and its reactor, a unique role in
- The Gulf Isn’t Ditching the Dollar. It’s Doing Something Smarter.
Gulf de-dollarization is the gradual diversification of oil-trade settlement and reserve holdings away from the US dollar. It’s not a wholesale switch to the yuan, but a hedging strategy accelerated by the 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis, in which Gulf states expand yuan and CBDC settlement rails while keeping their currencies pegged to the dollar
- Stillborn Peace Plans: Israel, Hamas and the Question of Disarmament
Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump is again on the stage pulling on the strings of history. This time, attention has shifted to whether Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip will disarm, something conditional on Israel
Occupy.com
- Britain Steers Away from its Far-Right Crash Course
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.