Opinions

The trade war escalated by President Donald Trump this April is set to cost the American economy dearly.

Near the beginning of Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines, Stanley (Lewis J. Stadlen), the head of the advertising department, barges into an editorial meeting and delivers the bad news: “We’re going to have to cut some of your copy this week.”

Donald Trump embarked on a trade war with China expecting it might cause a recession that would throw Americans out of work, warning that it would cause “some pain” — despite public surveys showing Americans are afraid of what the tariffs would do to their personal finances, and even as they are already causing job […]

Madison, a twelve-year-old from Illinois, visits a medical clinic every other week to get injections of Xolair, a powerful asthma and allergy medication.

Since Donald Trump’s administration took office in January, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has promoted its efforts to push migrants to “self-deport.”

With the death of Jorge Bergoglio, or Pope Francis, we lose a rare leader who, in an Italy governed by neofascists and in an increasingly reactionary Europe, stood out for his surprising ethical, social, and ecological commitments.

Women’s magazines, once replete with arcane rules for female submission, have evolved beyond recognition since the publication of Betty Friedan’s feminist classic The Feminine Mystique.

From 2007’s Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side to the just released The Dark Money Game, producer-director Alex Gibney has been tirelessly zooming in on the wrongs that need to righted.

Unless they are able to act successfully to protect themselves and their rights, 2.4 million federal workers face a grim future.

Cultural politics aside, MAGA is a coherent conservative-nationalist project through and through.

Indignation and resistance to Donald Trump’s bullying, deportations, and economic reprisals are spreading across Latin America.

Tariffs are a national conversation with shifting edicts coming almost daily from the White House.

Labor unions in the United States were starting to build some momentum in recent years after decades of decline when Donald Trump took office again.

Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Rhineland region are characterized by five things: Music, costumes, flowers, candy, and giant, handcrafted floats, many of which function as life-size political cartoons.

Often in history, there’s no blow struck by the enemies of a great power more fatal than the one it inflicts on itself.

Since its founding in 1961, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has never formed a federal government.

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman can hardly complain about a lack of media attention.

What can we do to turn around decades of union decline? This is the key challenge of our era, because without the power of a revitalized labor movement it will be exceedingly difficult to pull America off its descent into oligarchy and authoritarianism.

Giuseppe Di Vittorio drew the curtains and turned on the large chandelier, two of whose bulbs were out.