Parallel Universes
Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing …
Movements cannot shy away from conflict
Engaging in generative conflict by asking tough strategic questions was an important step on the road to New York City’s rent freeze.
Simone de Beauvoir Taught Us Everything We Need To Know About Gender
When I first heard the term “girl math” online a couple of years ago, my first thought, as a mathematics student applying for Ph. D. programs, was “This is great!
Trump’s Primetime Speech Was a Dud. He Could Still Use it to Interfere in the Midterms.
Donald Trump promised “really big news” in his primetime address on election integrity on Thursday night but failed to deliver any.
Trump promoted companies on Truth Social days after buying their stocks
President Donald Trump hopped on Truth Social last year to share some “very big and exciting news.
Vatican Casts Out Traditionalist Sect. What’s Next for Canadian Followers?
An excommunication story, fifty-six years in the making
Palestinian Dilemmas
The Palestinian liberation struggle is constrained in a way that none other has been in the modern era.
Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles : A Guide from the Bay Area
A guide to following Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles developed in the Bay Area.
Darline Graham Is Maneuvering Herself Into a Full Senate Term
Originally a temporary fill-in giving Republicans a chance to sort out their options, Lindsey Graham’s sister seems to be making a power move.
Objective co-directors win the 2026 AAJA Award for Leadership in Diversity & Solidarity
One of the Asian American Journalists Association's Community Awards, the honor recognizes a commitment to the AAPI journalist community and to AAJA's goals of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging.
Long Island Audit confronted a powerful police union. They made him pay for it.
Why did “asking questions about tax dollars” turn into a retaliatory arrest, a pinched nerve, a towed truck, and a criminal trespass charge that may not even hold up under New York law.
On the Economic Crisis of Capitalism
Considering the “Structural Crisis of Capital” from the perspective of economics, Prabhat Patnaik sheds light on two major aspects that have risen to prominence in our current conjuncture.
What we are reading… Costas Douzinas and Luis Eslava
Costas Douzinas The Dalkey Archive by Flan O’Brien (First publication 1964, Fourth Estate, 2007) ‘Suspended Sentences”, a theatrical play that was published as a chapter in Postmodern Jurisprudence …
The African Farmers Devastated by Extreme Heat
At the height of the 2024–2025 El Niño-induced drought , I watched in revulsion as hundreds of emaciated cattle desperately crowded for a drink around a small muddy dam in Mutare district in eastern …
Their Materialism and Ours: Minds, Matter, and Marxism
This is a response to China Miéville’s essay from Salvage #15: Bewitched and Distorted, ‘Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism‘.
Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough
For the first time, scientists found that a rocky planet in the habitable zone of its star has an atmosphere. It’s the best place to look for alien biosignatures, scientists say.
