Jair Bolsonaro is now awaiting trial on charges of plotting a coup, depriving Brazil’s far-right bloc of its figurehead. Yet with a presidential election due next year, the Brazilian left hasn’t found a candidate who can match Lula’s popular appeal.
The Pentagon Wants Your High Schoolers
Using the enlistment crisis as justification, Project 2025 proposed measures for high schools that blur the lines between career guidance and military recruitment. The Trump administration seems likely to further embed the military in public education.
Elon Musk’s Goal Isn’t Efficiency — It’s a Liquidation Sale
The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t bumbling through an ill-advised reform effort. It’s deliberately sabotaging federal agencies to make way for privatization.
Assessing AMLO: The Presidential Years
Despite powerful enemies at home and in the United States, Mexico’s left-populist former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador managed to not only win power but deliver on his promises to workers and the poor.
Trump Promised Free Speech Defense and Delivered the Opposite
Donald Trump told the world that his administration would end the censoriousness of “woke” liberal culture. His time in office has seen one of the worst crackdowns on free speech in recent American history.
Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.
“Stop the Oligarchs” Is a Winning Message
Americans do not like billionaires throwing their endless money around to buy off whoever and whatever they want. The anti-oligarch messaging pushed by Bernie Sanders against the Trump administration has deep resonance, and we need more of it.
Tariffs Aren’t Enough to Protect Good Auto Jobs
Automakers have long used the threat of relocating to discipline workers, which has led the UAW to embrace Trump’s tariffs. But tariffs won’t solve the problem of competition from nonunion firms or eliminate management’s ability to exploit nonunion labor.
The Scramble for the Arctic Is Just Getting Started
Donald Trump’s efforts to claim Greenland for the US is part of a wider push toward militarization of the Arctic. Conflicts thousands of miles away, like the Russian war in Ukraine, are already having an impact on the peoples of the region.
In Germany, Too, Pro-Palestine Protesters Get Deported
Berlin’s city government has moved to deport four pro-Palestine protesters. Even as centrist parties warn against the far-right threat, they introduce the powers beloved by authoritarian leaders.
Florida Republicans Want to Gut the State’s Minimum Wage Law
In Florida, the GOP-dominated state legislature is rapidly advancing a suite of bills allowing employers to underpay sub-minimum-wage workers — including children.
On “Liberation Day,” Trump Signed America Up for Stagflation
Yesterday Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on all of America’s trading partners, with the explicit aim of “liberating” the US from unfair trade. Not only are these efforts confused, they will lock America in a cycle of stagnation and inflation.
Federal Worker Layoffs Will Affect the Entire US
Donald Trump has explicitly tied his campaign to slash federal jobs to draining “the swamp” of Washington, DC. But the impact of these cuts to the federal workforce will reach far beyond the DC area.
Trump’s Protectionist Turn Is a Death Blow for Neoliberalism
Donald Trump’s trade war means that we’re entering a qualitatively new phase in the history of capitalism. Yet the new economic order taking shape will be just as “globalist” as the neoliberal regime it’s supplanting.
