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The flags of all EU member states fly outside the European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, on November 20, 2024.

Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy? Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy?

At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new political Dark Age.

Apr 4, 2025 / John Feffer

US and Iran Inch Toward Conflict, an Earthquake Rocks Myanmar, Trump Tariffs Hit Global Markets

US and Iran Inch Toward Conflict, an Earthquake Rocks Myanmar, Trump Tariffs Hit Global Markets US and Iran Inch Toward Conflict, an Earthquake Rocks Myanmar, Trump Tariffs Hit Global Markets

On this episode of American Prestige, headlines from around the globe.

Apr 4, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Loot Hauley

Loot Hauley Loot Hauley

Not disappeared.

Apr 4, 2025 / Steve Brodner

A worker unfurls the American and Chinese flags at the 61st Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2025, in Munich, Germany.

Could the US and China Conclude an Agreement Halting the Momentum Toward Conflict? Could the US and China Conclude an Agreement Halting the Momentum Toward Conflict?

How Trump’s attack on the global order endangers a deal Beijing might otherwise accept.

Apr 3, 2025 / Jake Werner

Two men in suits sitting down. One of them is holding several papers and addressing a microphone.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.

Apr 3, 2025 / Ellen Schrecker

The Chevron gas station logo is seen on February 13, 2025, in Austin, Texas.

The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry The Dirty Alliance Between Tech and the Oil Industry

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, JS Tan on the relationship between Microsoft and Chevron.

Apr 3, 2025 / Podcast / Paris Marx

A man walks past a statue of Charles de Gaulle, with a cardboard speech bubble reading “LONG LIVE THE FREE ZAD” as hundreds of opponents to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport and ZAD activists gather to demand a collective management of the land planned for the airport’s construction, 2018.

Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune

Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD.

Apr 2, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Clinton Williamson

President George W. Bush speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, in 2007.

Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror

The antidemocratic policies put in place after 9/11 have come home to roost.

Apr 1, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg

Right-wing leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom early, sentenced to imprisonment and disqualified from holding office for embezzlement charges.

In the Le Pen Verdict, the French Far Right Sees a Political Declaration of War In the Le Pen Verdict, the French Far Right Sees a Political Declaration of War

A French court rules to bar Marine Le Pen from seeking office for five years.

Apr 1, 2025 / Harrison Stetler

Netanyahu’s War

Netanyahu’s War Netanyahu’s War

Bombing returns and the death toll rises.

Apr 1, 2025 / OppArt / Annabelle Heckler

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