Rent controls can help to make housing more affordable in cities like New York. But they must be part of a broader solution ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

French right-wingers don’t yet have a leader like Donald Trump. Yet the creation of Fox News–like TV channels, harsh culture wars, and the decline of class politics are pushing France along a path ...

This is an extract from Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order, now available from Verso Books. Some writers have taken the period ...

Donald Trump’s 2024 victory didn’t just usher in political change but a cultural one. The fact that Trump won both the popular vote and every battleground state meant, for many (Trump himself foremost ...

Interview by Daniel Finn Andreas Krieg is an associate professor at the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London and the author of Socio-Political Order and Security in the Arab World. He ...

AFSCME District Council 33 represents the blue-collar city workers who make Philadelphia run. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they ...

Mamdani won anyway — not by eking it out in the seventh round of ranked-choice voting but topping Cuomo among first-choice ballots and claiming outright victory on election night. His triumph sends a ...

And lastly, private equity groups, who have systematically increased the cost of living by invading industries from medicine to housing to food, have spent at least $7 million fighting to keep a ...

Now that same strategy is rearing its head way down ballot at the municipal level: the New York City Council elections. With the Democratic primaries for council seats less than a month away, a deluge ...

At the heart of Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral run is the firm belief that none of the terrible things he’s done to the people whose votes he’s competing for will matter. Here’s a reminder of a few of the ...

In 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in Coke County, Texas, with 92 percent of the vote. The margins were similarly stunning in rural counties across Texas: Oldham, Sterling, Glasscock, ...