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Karl Marx’s ideal society is taken far less seriously than his critique of capitalism. But he did offer a rich account of what a better society would look like — one built around meaningful work, mutual care, and human flourishing.

Keiko Fujimori has become Peru’s president after another narrow election runoff. While in past contests she tiptoed around her father’s authoritarian record, this time she capitalized on his strongman image.

The new sci-fi film The End of Oak Street is about a 1982 suburban cul-de-sac taken over by dinosaurs. It’s Steven Spielberg nostalgia recycled into something barely alive.

Originally published on the German news site Table.Media on 21, July 2026 Authors: Diego Pedraza and Melina Pressentin, experts with Deutsche Umwelthilfe (Environmental Action Germany) We are currently experiencing our second fossil fuel price crisis in just four years. This is the price we pay for our dependence on fossil fuels. The cost spikes caused […]

The Trump administration is attempting to criminalize union members for organizing against its immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year. That’s because it correctly sees labor as a threat to its authoritarian designs.

The current crisis in the world order isn’t just about Donald Trump ignoring multilateral institutions. The US has long broken the rules — the real change is that Washington is losing its ability to lay down the law to other states.

Wired for Profit: Fourth in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and politics in the Yellowhammer State. WESTOVER, Ala.—Shannon Vanden Heuvel said she doesn’t believe a word they say.  A marketing designer and proud mom, she’s seen the seemingly endless television advertisements from Alabama Power, the state’s largest electric […]

STONE HARBOR, N.J.—Against a lush carpet of marsh grasses, the five-and-a-half acre island of muddy sediment, shallow pools and tufts of straggly vegetation stood out like a sore thumb.  It wasn’t enough to catch the eye of young visitors to The Wetlands Institute, who were far more interested in the diamondback terrapin enclosure that was […]

They say what the machine is, but cannot raise a demand. The Vanguard in Retreat, Part Four

EL PASO, Texas—Gilbert Morales struggled to compose himself before addressing the El Paso City Council on Tuesday morning. Morales fought back tears as he recounted how his wife died of lung cancer in June, despite never being a smoker. He lives next to Marathon Petroleum’s El Paso Refinery, which is one of the largest sources […]

We, the Indigenous Peoples and Nations, preexist the creation of States. Since ancestral times we have inhabited, governed, and protected our territories, exercising our own forms of government, knowledge, and life. Our collective, territorial, and self-determination rights do not originate from State recognition, but from our existence as Peoples.

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Despite never making landfall, Hurricane Lala left a path of destruction across Hawaii over the weekend. Strong winds, torrential rain and mudslides damaged or swept away more than 100 homes while felled trees blocked key roads on the island of Hawaii, or the Big Island, which suffered the brunt of the tropical cyclone’s wrath. More […]

Good news: not everyone is hurting! MIDTERM U.S. ELECTIONS are traditionally predictably unpredictable, the main question being how much loss the party of the sitting President will suffer. Conventionally that should go double or triple for the Republicans this November. But amid a deeply unpopular ruinous war, and frightening insecurity for tens of millions of… Continue reading The Looming Election

Every day, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) flow across the Straits of Mackinac through two 20-inch pipelines that have proven vulnerable to anchors dropped by passing freighters and barges. There’s a broad consensus for the need to remove the aging pipelines and reduce the risk of a... Read more »

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By Bill Barry, 2007,2014,2020, 2023 55 pp. (Fourth Edition) A readable, rank-and-file oriented approach to what new local union officers should try to do if they believe in union democracy. Bill Barry calls for an organizing model of unionism and offers numerous practical suggestions. Also, this book covers the nuts and bolts of the legal […]

Twilight of the Dons, historian Colin Kidd’s dazzling study of Britain’s elite universities, opens a window into a lost world in which, for a brief period, mass democracy combined with the idea of scholarship as a vocation open to anyone.

The director of American Doctor talks to Jacobin about her documentary on three US volunteer physicians who worked in a besieged Gaza hospital — and the wall of disbelief that met them when they came home and told others what they saw.

Five million people have lost food assistance since Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Meanwhile, ICE has received $113 billion from the GOP’s reconciliation bills — and spent just 12% of it.

In the Western Pacific, protections for endangered leatherback turtles face elimination. In Alaskan waters, Steller sea lion sanctuaries could soon shrink. And in the North Atlantic, gear designed to save right whales from fatal entanglements might be permanently scrapped. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sent letters to the nation’s regional fisheries councils last […]

OSHKOSH, Wisc.—Every July, more than 10,000 general aviation aircraft from around the world fly here for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture, widely recognized as the largest annual aviation gathering and fly-in convention. Many aircraft owners arrived this year with a common concern: The fuel that brought them there and has powered their airplanes for decades […]