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When Israel and Hamas brokered a cease-fire in January 2025, it seemed possible that the suffering in Gaza would be alleviated, at least for a time.

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary makes it clear that New York City’s chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (NYC DSA) is the most dynamic and powerful left-wing organization in the country.

Gaza is now experiencing a man-made famine caused by the Israeli blockade, as Benjamin Netanyahu threatens to intensify the onslaught with a full-scale military occupation of the territory.

As New York City gets ready for a historic mayoral election, Zohran Kwame Mamdani has exploded onto the scene as a candidate proposing transformative changes to the city’s educational framework.

It is highly debatable whether a strategy of US primacy — meaning, a global power arrangement where the United States is not just one of a number of similarly powerful nations, but by far the most powerful and influential — is even in the country’s best interests.

Last week, senate Democrats voted by a margin of twenty-seven to seventeen for a resolution introduced by Bernie Sanders to stop shipping assault rifles to Israel.

Whole cities in Gaza lie in ruins.

Whenever we imagine that Israel’s genocide has reached its nadir, the country plumbs new depths of evil.

In his book Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective, Gilbert Achcar analyzes the background, dynamics, and global consequences of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. In this interview with Jacobin, Achcar discusses the political radicalization of Israeli society, the strategic miscalculations of Hamas, and the open complicity of Western governments […]

For years, Democrats framed gerrymandering as a fundamental threat to democracy.

Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up behind loser Andrew Cuomo.

For the second summer in a row, I find myself writing about Punjabis in Italy under the urge of a tragedy.

Palestinian statehood is a big deal.

Since New York City’s June 24 Democratic primary, it has become clear that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the only anti-Trump candidate for mayor.

More than ten thousand Air Canada flight attendants could soon be on strike if a deal isn’t reached by August 16. In one of the strongest strike mandate votes in recent Canadian history, 99.7 percent of members in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) airline division opted to authorize a strike, with a turnout […]

In a recent ministerial gathering of the CELAC-China Forum, several Latin American and Caribbean delegations, most prominently those led by Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, Brazil’s Lula da Silva, and Chile’s Gabriel Boric, convened in Beijing to renew cooperation commitments.

News broadcast giants that have curried favor with President Donald Trump and disseminated right-wing talking points are now urging the administration to eliminate rules holding back their monopolization of local and national TV stations, under the guise of competition with Big Tech companies, according to documents reviewed by the Lever.

Texas Democrats have left the Capitol in an attempt to block a mid-cycle redistricting scheme.

In early January 2025, at the American Historical Association (AHA) conference in New York City, over five hundred members of the organization filed into a hotel ballroom to attend the annual business meeting.