While the British ruling class looks with envy at US imperialism’s place as the world’s hegemonic power, the American ruling class looks back fondly at Britain's traditions of aristocratic arrogance ...

It is the bankruptcy of American capitalism and the fear of social revolution, not merely Trump’s authoritarian personality, ...

In Nepal, a protest movement in early September 2025 escalated into a spontaneous insurrection in response to police violence ...

Dishonest governance is rarely a single act or brazen deal; more often, it appears as a set of habits that spread through a ...

Despite the diversity of government and social structures, every country today faces social and political tensions tied to concentrated and unaccountable ...

Aristotle's sayings on tyranny ring true today, allowing people to recognize tyranny if they know what to look for.

Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire if Tesla's new compensation package gets approved. Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Darrell West talks about the implications of the offer.

The late Stone Age is not commonly associated with socially stratified societies, yet archaeologist Mehmet Özdoğan argues social and political elites were already shaping communities when humans began ...

Many of us on the Left today joined because we were inspired and got organized on the basis of Bernie Sanders’s program for a ...

Yet, top DC Democrats—including Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries— continue to stand obstinately, and horrifically, on the wrong side of history. They ...

This moment in U.S. history, defined by rising authoritarianism, extreme wealth inequality, and the withering away of participatory democracy, is not a glitch in the system. Rather, it is the ...