Enmeshed in a colonial relationship with the US and abandoned by their own establishment politicians, Puerto Ricans are being forced to forge their own recovery after Hurricane Fiona. But they’re also dreaming of a different, more just future. A person cooks in the dark in a home in the Condado community of Santurce in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 19,

Black sharecroppers organizing a union were slaughtered en masse 103 years ago this week in the Elaine Massacre. It was one of the US’s worst episodes of racist violence — and a reminder that Jim Crow was about keeping the masses divided and labor brutalized. Troops are seen marching sharecroppers toward temporary holding facilities where hundreds would be

Ian McEwan is one of Britain’s most prominent novelists. His latest offering, Lessons, is an attempt to track the life story of its fictional protagonist through the turbulence of postwar British and European history. The result is a labored exercise in boomer agitprop. Instead of delivering a literary manifesto in defense of liberal democracy, McEwan […]

The Hill has fired Katie Halper from its morning show, Rising, for describing Israel's policies as tantamount to apartheid. It's a blatant act of censorship to silence a pro-Palestinian journalist. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) For all the strides the Palestinian cause has made

Despite fears that a military coup could follow Sunday’s elections in Brazil, the country’s military brass is unlikely to feel threatened enough to attempt one. Whoever wins, the military’s growing institutional hold on power looks likely to continue. Current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, during an audience with his former Minister of Defence and

The new Conservative prime minister Liz Truss has experienced a spectacular humiliation during her first weeks in office. Her self-defeating agenda reflects the mindset of a Thatcherite ideologue managing an economy already ravaged by decades of Thatcherism. British prime minister Liz Truss visits the British Gas Academy in Dartford, UK, September 30,

The new Conservative prime minister Liz Truss has experienced a spectacular humiliation during her first weeks in office. Her self-defeating agenda reflects the mindset of a Thatcherite ideologue managing an economy already ravaged by decades of Thatcherism. British prime minister Liz Truss visits the British Gas Academy in Dartford, UK, September 30,

The Industrial Workers of the World pioneered a radical unionism that built a small but incredibly dedicated group of unionists and union supporters — which is why American capitalists and politicians quickly decided they needed to stop the union. International Workers of the World labor organizer Frank Tannenbaum, speaking to a gathering at Union Square

The Fed has dropped all pretense of aiming for a “soft landing” as it ratchets up interest rates to fight inflation. It now openly admits it’s trying to create a recession in which millions of people will lose their jobs. Unemployed men sitting on the sunny side of the San Francisco Public Library in San Francisco, California. (Dorothea Lange / Heritage Art / Heritage

New studies suggest that private equity–owned hospitals and nursing homes deliver worse outcomes and higher costs for patients — weeks after Congress gave private equity firms a new tax break. Private equity activity in the health and eldercare spaces has ballooned over the last decade, at the expense of patients’ financial and physical well-being. (Bromberger

Published in 1985, Don DeLillo’s White Noise depicted an America blinded by consumerism. Ahead of Netflix’s adaptation of the novel, it’s worth revisiting DeLillo’s masterpiece, which remains one of our most perceptive visions of contemporary America. Don DeLillo’s White Noise remains one of our most perceptive visions of contemporary America and the

Six Republican states are suing to stop Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan — even though a new study shows that borrowers in most of those states would be among the biggest beneficiaries of the program. A new Federal Reserve analysis finds that nearly three-quarters of Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness will go to those living in areas where the median

Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, Andrew Dominik’s film Blonde ignores the assertive and hardworking real-life Marilyn Monroe and instead gives us a lurid tale of perpetual victimization. Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. (Netflix) By now the Netflix film Blonde is notorious for its length, it’s NC-17 rating, and its cruelly narrow view of film

Despite Democrats controlling the White House and Congress since 2020, it has largely been the Right that has taken the political initiative and set the terms of the political conversation. Expect that to get worse after November. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about lowering health care costs in the Rose Garden at the White House on September 27, 2022,

Unlike most world leaders, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has boldly called for peace commission in Ukraine, foregrounding the need for open negotiations to end the war. At home, however, he has increased the power of the military. Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (C), Mexico's secretary of defense, Cresencio Sandoval (L),

The new Oprah Winfrey–produced Sidney Poitier documentary, Sidney, is a gushing tribute film, not a fully rounded portrait of a human being who had weaknesses to go along with his many strengths. Sidney Poitier in the film To Sir, With Love, 1967. (Columbia Pictures / Getty Images) Sidney is an entirely conventional but handsome Apple TV+ documentary about