Opinions

There are moments in a presidency of no turning back, decisions made and actions taken that are so consequential and far-reaching, they mark a fundamental turning point.

Wall Street jolts with every policy shift.

“I bought this house at £50,000,” says James Coupland as Darude’s Eurodance classic, “Sandstorm,” plays loudly in the background, “and I spent £30,000 on the refurb.”

While millions of Americans are struggling with a growing consumer debt crisis and surviving paycheck to paycheck, the wealthy are living their best lives — and increasingly so.

While Harvard University’s recent refusal to yield to the Trump administration should be applauded, its very ability to do so is born of ideological compromise.

In 2024, Americans poured $150 billion into sports betting, generating $13.7 billion for the industry and $2.8 billion in tax revenue, a nearly 25 percent jump from the previous year.

Why did American labor leaders do so little to seize the real opening for resurgence that emerged after the COVID-19 pandemic? Despite a very tight labor market, a vigorously pro-union National Labor Relations Board, and youthful grassroots activism at Starbucks, Amazon, and beyond, most unions invested exasperatingly little into new organizing.

In the late 1920s, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein began a quixotic project: adapting Karl Marx’s Capital into a film.

Since the October 7 attacks, the world has watched Israel inflict spectacular horrors on Gaza; meanwhile, its dispossession of West Bank Palestinians has quietly escalated.

In Dubai’s financial district, gleaming glass towers bear names like Dubai Islamic Bank and Dar Al Sharia.

Since 2005, the European Union (EU) has been running the world’s largest experiment in emissions trading, a climate measure that attempts to put a price on carbon.

“We believe in a world future where work and play become one,” proclaims video game developer Sky Mavis’s website.

In a 1983 episode of the Fuji TV variety show Quiz! Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Don!, three men in peculiar get-ups take part in a game-show pastiche, swaying to pop tunes while giving sheepish answers — though only one, composer and multi-instrumentalist Haruomi Hosono, puts in much effort, performing a strange, distracted strut.

When Canada’s federal election came to a close this spring, the Conservative Party — which had been up 25 points in the polls as late as January — finished second to the Liberal Party.

The war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the Central African country’s border with Rwanda, has caused at least six million deaths in the last twenty-nine years.