Opinions

By Eileen Jones 14 hours ago sorry
Zach Cregger has never seen a Resident Evil movie, and that’s definitely for the better. .
Source: Jacobin
By Ted Widmer 15 hours ago sorry
The Canadian prime minister’s remarks before the European parliament outlined a vision of the west without its most powerful member.
Source: The Guardian
By Nimrod Flaschenberg 14 hours ago sorry
Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. .
Source: Jacobin
By Margaret Sullivan 15 hours ago sorry
CNN, MS Now and Politico accurately call last week’s sudden lockout ‘a direct assault on the first amendment’. That’s right.
Source: The Guardian
By L. Canciello 16 hours ago sorry
Human rights groups based in the West Bank have long documented Israel’s crimes — and that’s why they’re now subject to US sanctions. .
Source: Jacobin
By David Moscrop 16 hours ago sorry
As the White House doles out threats and insults, it would be easy to hold out for better times. Mark Carney is right to court the EU instead.
Source: The Guardian
By Susan Neiman, Kristen R. Ghodsee 16 hours ago sorry
According to philosopher Susan Neiman, the Left abandons the concept of good and evil at our own peril. .
Source: Jacobin
By Claire Finkelstein 18 hours ago sorry
The court’s decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emerge.
Source: The Guardian
By David Broder 17 hours ago sorry
On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. .
Source: Jacobin
By Casey Michel 19 hours ago sorry
Today’s wealth gap is much bigger, and the country’s richest have much more power than they once did. It’s an Age of Oligarchy.
Source: The Guardian
By Vivek Chibber 18 hours ago sorry
Vivek Chibber recommends five books that explain how empires work, how capitalism divides the world, and how Marxists have argued about imperialism.
Source: Jacobin
By Mohamad Bazzi 21 hours ago sorry
Trump’s mess has rekindled Yemen’s civil war and a years-long conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia.
Source: The Guardian
By Alan Finkel 1 day ago sorry
The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four months.
Source: The Guardian
By David Broder 1 day ago sorry
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. .
Source: Jacobin
By Steve Bloomfield 1 day ago sorry
As the organisation meets this week, it remains the best hope for restoring order. But it relies on goodwill from the US president – and that is lacking.
Source: The Guardian
By Hager Ben Jaffel 1 day ago sorry
Intelligence agencies like the CIA have been cultivating ties with universities for decades. .
Source: Jacobin
By Branko Marcetic 1 day ago sorry
It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care system. .
Source: Jacobin
By Dave Schilling 1 day ago sorry
The US’s deployment of weaponry in space marks the latest backward step from the show’s optimistic conception of the future.
Source: The Guardian
By Polly Toynbee 15 minutes ago sorry
I want him to start the fightback next week against extremists who peddle hate and those who despise this country. That would be true patriotism.
Source: The Guardian
By Gaby Hinsliff 2 hours ago sorry
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution.
Source: The Guardian
By Peter Greste 5 hours ago sorry
Australians can’t afford to be complacent – Pauline Hanson also thinks it’s OK to shut out reporters she doesn’t like.
Source: The Guardian
By Nicki Hutley 7 hours ago sorry
Slower overall economic growth doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It is the quality of that growth that matters.
Source: The Guardian
By Nathalie Tocci 15 hours ago sorry
Ursula von der Leyen’s outreach to Canada and new security proposals are wise – but she may not be the right messenger.
Source: The Guardian
By Ranjana Srivastava 16 hours ago sorry
The demands on doctors are only intensifying. From dissatisfied patients, I would ask for a measure of grace, understanding and, where possible, forgiveness.
Source: The Guardian
By Kelli Blanchett 17 hours ago sorry
Community, camaraderie, connection: I learned about all these things while hosting pub karaoke nights. Sticky private booths are their absolute antithesis.
Source: The Guardian
By Larry Elliott 1 day ago sorry
War, AI disruption and markets in turmoil: the warnings are all there. But lessons from the 2008 crash could help us.
Source: The Guardian
By Joseph Earp 1 day ago sorry
Humans have always been capable of transcending the lock box of daily life with little more technology at their side than wood, string, a baton and their voices.
Source: The Guardian
By Robert Sparrow, Nick French 1 day ago sorry
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. .
Source: Jacobin
By Jeremy Gong 2 days ago sorry
Instead of inspiring an awakening as filmmakers hope, The Uprising repeats tired liberal calls for “healing,” and, when those disappoint, turns to fantasies of individual violence. .
Source: Jacobin
By Luis Feliz Leon 2 days ago sorry
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. .
Source: Jacobin
By Michael G. Vann 2 days ago sorry
Plenty of contemporary comedy gazes upon American stupidity and concludes that Americans are stupid. .
Source: Jacobin
By Meagan Day 2 days ago sorry
The Caribbean of the 1970s was marked by major political and social upheaval. .
Source: Jacobin
By Marlon Ettinger 2 days ago sorry
The primary in France’s Parti Socialiste will not likely pick the winner of the 2027 presidential election. .
Source: Jacobin
By Mitchell Abidor 3 days ago sorry
Mitchell Abidor, author of Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, responds to his critics.
Source: Jacobin
By David Griscom 3 days ago sorry
The Christian right hasn’t always dominated Texas politics. .
Source: Jacobin
By Joel Whitney 3 days ago sorry
The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her book Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated attempts to censor it, including by her American publisher.
Source: Jacobin
By Mona Ali, Jacobin 3 days ago sorry
Economist Mona Ali on how the United States wields the world’s most powerful currency to shore up empire and its own ruling class — and how Trump’s careless moves might blow it all up.
Source: Jacobin
By Bhaskar Sunkara 3 days ago sorry
Social democracy transformed the 20th century, giving working people a share of wealth and power their grandparents could scarcely imagine. .
Source: Jacobin
By Arwa Mahdawi 3 days ago sorry
The billionaire’s attempted crackdown on Ed Sheeran’s tour only amplified pro-Palestinian statements. It’s been a joy to watch.
Source: The Guardian
By Margaret Sullivan 4 days ago sorry
The network continues to cater to its presidential ‘audience of one’, downplaying his supreme court loss and more.
Source: The Guardian
By Moira Donegan 4 days ago sorry
The US decision to remove limits on coal and gas plant emissions is rooted in a perception of manliness in these industries.
Source: The Guardian
By Steven Greenhouse 5 days ago sorry
Not only would the plan do vast economic damage – it assumes that Americans are easily bamboozled.
Source: The Guardian
By Francine Prose 6 days ago sorry
A petition against the mayor’s presence reeked of Islamophobia – and ran counter to the sense of togetherness that followed the attacks.
Source: The Guardian
By Arwa Mahdawi 7 days ago sorry
Forget the bombing: the Trump administration keeps insisting this isn’t a war. But it’s not just a matter of semantics.
Source: The Guardian
By Dave Schilling 8 days ago sorry
The government apparently has an issue with paths for cyclists. Take it from someone who can’t ride a bike: this makes no sense.
Source: The Guardian
By Arwa Mahdawi 9 days ago sorry
Host Jesse Watters says Trump’s offer to Americans if Republicans retain Congress is ‘an enticement’, not a bribe.
Source: The Guardian
By Kenneth Roth 10 days ago sorry
The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violence.
Source: The Guardian
By Sidney Blumenthal 10 days ago sorry
The president’s chaotic schemes of aggrandizement, from Venezuela to Iran, have no larger rationale.
Source: The Guardian
By Moustafa Bayoumi 10 days ago sorry
Anti-Muslim sentiment is used as a political weapon. Meanwhile, Muslim American leaders are making a difference for all.
Source: The Guardian
By Mohamad Bazzi 11 days ago sorry
The president’s latest warning barely registered, written off as typical behavior. But the threats have real-world consequences.
Source: The Guardian
By Margaret Sullivan 13 days ago sorry
The more defense secretary Pete Hegseth tries to flex his manly strength, the wimpier he looks.
Source: The Guardian
By Robert Reich 13 days ago sorry
The president apparently plans to focus on the person he most admires – himself – even if Republicans would rather he didn’t.
Source: The Guardian
Courtesy of Editorial 3 days ago sorry
Politicians who threaten filmmakers rather than investigate alleged military crimes expose not strength but a leadership frightened of the evidence.
Source: The Guardian
Courtesy of Editorial 5 days ago sorry
The extraordinary success of the rebels, and Saudi counterstrikes, threaten economic havoc. But the country’s civilians are paying the highest price.
Source: The Guardian
Courtesy of Editorial 8 days ago sorry
The Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failing.
Source: The Guardian
Courtesy of Editorial 10 days ago sorry
Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend.
Source: The Guardian