War and Peace

Presidential timber? United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain speaks to guests at an election-night watch party.

Shawn Fain for President! Shawn Fain for President!

Centrist Democrats hate the union leader because he puts the working class first.

Apr 18, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Friedrich Merz (l), CDU candidate for chancellor and CDU federal chairman, and Lars Klingbeil, SPD parliamentary group and federal chairman, hold a press conference of the CDU/CSU and SPD party chairmen to present the coalition agreement in the Paul Löbe House.

“A Matter of Survival”: Germany’s New Coalition Government “A Matter of Survival”: Germany’s New Coalition Government

Is the country’s latest grand coalition a shaky marriage of convenience—or “democracy’s last bullet”?

Apr 18, 2025 / Linda Mannheim

A Palestinian woman carrying her child in her arms cries in front of a building destroyed in Israel's attack on the Bureij Refugee Camp on September 19, 2024.

‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’ ‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’

Dispatches from Gaza on surviving a year of genocide.

Apr 17, 2025 / Lujayn, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Hani Almadhoun

Trump and Netanyahu

Colonialism Is Alive and Kicking in the US’s Obsession With Israel Colonialism Is Alive and Kicking in the US’s Obsession With Israel

Trump and his associates weaponize antisemitism to attack any threats to his colonizer’s view of the world.

Apr 16, 2025 / Aviva Chomsky

The Bank of China on April 10, 2025, in New York City. US stocks tumbled as investors assessed the worsening trade war with China.

Trump’s Tariff Shock and the China Supply Chain Trump’s Tariff Shock and the China Supply Chain

We are now in a trade war with China, and the only question is: How long before Trump (and America) blink?

Apr 16, 2025 / James K. Galbraith

People walk among the rubble of the residential buildings targeted in Israel's attack in Gaza, Palestinian territories on April 9, 2025.

Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s Failures Israel’s Genocide Has Resumed—and So Have the Media’s Failures

Israel has returned to full-scale slaughter in Gaza. Western outlets have returned to the same disastrous coverage of the past 18 months.

Apr 14, 2025 / Assal Rad

Ukraine’s Dangerous Illusion of New Nuclear Energy 

Ukraine’s Dangerous Illusion of New Nuclear Energy  Ukraine’s Dangerous Illusion of New Nuclear Energy 

Nuclear plants are prime targets in wartime Ukraine. Renewables are safer, cheaper—and already on the rise.

Apr 10, 2025 / Paul Hockenos

Chancellor designate and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Friedrich Merz casts his ballot on changes to Germany's Basic Law, loosening federal debt and defense spending limits, on March 18, 2025, in Berlin, Germany.

The Labyrinth of European Rearmament The Labyrinth of European Rearmament

The European Union’s rush to increase military spending is as much about appeasing Washington as achieving actual “strategic autonomy.”

Apr 9, 2025 / Harrison Stetler

Laura Loomer, a right-wing pundit and supporter of former president Donald Trump, outside the United States Federal Courthouse where Trump is scheduled to be arraigned later in the day on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida.

Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration  Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration 

The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.

Apr 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Shara, waits to greet a Ukrainian delegation ahead of a meeting to help strengthen ties between the two countries in December 2024 in Damascus, Syria.

Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover Syria’s New Rulers Get a Makeover

The country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Shara, has donned a suit, trimmed his beard, and dropped his nom de guerre. But Syrians are still afraid.

Apr 7, 2025 / Charles Glass

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