Opinions

Labor movements in Namibia have been rather fragile over the past few decades, ever since the country gained independence from South Africa in 1990. This was not always the case. .

In the first week of September 2025, Nepal saw its biggest wave of unrest in almost twenty years. .

When Chuck Norris died Thursday in Hawaii at the age of eighty-six, the internet, the medium that ultimately defined him more than any film or television role, duly noted his passing with a mix of irony and sincerity. .

As a kid, I read the way most young bookworms do: indiscriminately and with total absorption. .

Within hours of the September 11, 2001, attacks, pundits scrambled to explain what they signified. .

In the early 1950s, working-class teenagers in London started showing up to dance halls in long drape jackets with velvet collars, drainpipe trousers, and pompadour hairdos. .

Speaking on a conservative podcast last week, Senator Jon Husted confidently asserted that low-income people can’t handle daily challenges and lack basic budgeting skills. .

Timothée Chalamet was one of the more discussed Oscars snubs this week. .

In the first six days of war on Iran, the Pentagon spent $11.3 billion in taxpayer funds. .

In a nondescript American city, an all-white police force in riot gear faces a multiracial crowd of protesters in front of city hall shouting, “No more injustice! No more discrimination!” I try to make my way through the crowd, but a cop stops me in my tracks, warning me of my imminent arrest. .

The morning after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, began his globally broadcast Sunday sermon with a special note about the “brilliant execution of Operation Epic Fury.”

Imagine you’re at the supermarket one day, but weirdly your card doesn’t work. .

Over the past four decades, a pervasive pessimism has taken hold on the Left regarding the prospects for meaningful redistribution within capitalist economies. .

“Here in South America, we present ourselves as a region of peace,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared last week as he hosted South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, adding that “nobody here has an atomic bomb.”

In 1931, the Soviet neuropsychologist Alexander Luria traveled to the foothills of the Alay Mountains, in the barren borderlands between Uzbekistan and Kirghizia, to find out how the locals thought. .

In the battle between democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and centrist New York Governor Kathy Hochul over whether to increase taxes on the state’s superrich, New Yorkers are firmly on the mayor’s side, with 62 percent approving of his plan. .

Although long used to all manner of wars, Lebanon is watching in stunned disbelief as catastrophe strikes with an unprecedented violence. .

By the time he died this past Saturday at age ninety-six, Jürgen Habermas had become something of a reviled figure for much of the Left. .

Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, recently said that the country is in a state of “open war” with Afghanistan. .

Every third Friday in March, the American medical establishment celebrates Match Day. .