Subjects Archives: Culture

A new documentary that began airing on PBS this month (The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today) highlights one of the most surreal stories from World War II.

UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.

Cartoonist Mr. Fish (real name Dwayne Booth) posted an update to his Patreon on March 20 headed “Fish: Laid Off!”

Zohran Mamdani, the choice of Democratic Party voters in New York City, is anathema to the billionaire class. So much so that the New York Times elevated the work of a white supremacist in an effort to derail what the people want.

As protests shake Panama, youth-led JR-16 stands at the forefront of resistance to U.S.-backed repression and neoliberal rule.

The victory of Jeannette Jara in the ruling coalition’s primary is a major triumph for the people and the left.

Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.

The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures.

ISRAEL’s genocide in Gaza and the 12-day war between Israel and Iran saw Israel destroying all universities in Gaza and assassinating top scientists of Iran. Not a tear or word of condemnation from the U.S. and European powers.

The Communist Party and socialist construction.

In a recent video recapping his primary victory in Queens, Zohran Mamdani did something almost radical for today’s political landscape: he cut through the usual Beltway euphemisms and mapped out the varied, living elements of the coalition that won. Most postmortems stay tangled in polite code. We get anxious talk of “electability,” “swing voters,” whether […]

Women are conditioned to accept sexism, but they are also able to rebel against it in the right circumstances.

In a ruling that stems from the president’s birthright citizenship order, the “conservative supermajority just took away lower courts’ single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration’s lawless excesses.”

The southern state spends nearly 60% of its revenue budget on education, health, pensions, food subsidies and rural development.

Big tech is working hard to sell us on artificial intelligence, in particular what is called “artificial general intelligence.” At conferences and in interviews corporate leaders describe a not-too-distant future when AI systems will be able to do everything for everyone, producing a world of plenty for all. But they warn, that future depends on […]

Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

A FAIR analysis of media coverage of the top six Democratic candidates (based on polling through the end of May) found that Cuomo’s name appeared in headlines seven times more often than Zohran Mamdani, who for months had been in second place in opinion polls, and nine times more often than Brad Lander, who typically came in No. 3 in the polls (as he did in first-round voting).

The advent of cellular technology has made it so much easier to track where any of us have been, simply by triangulating the locations of the cell towers our phones have pinged along the way.