Macron’s True Color Is Blue
After 51 days of political limbo, the proverbial white smoke finally rose from the Élysée Palace. The appointment of right-wing stalwart Michel Barnier as...
Harris Gets Mixed Grades From Progressives After Debate
The 2024 U.S. presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night presented what progressive organizers and labor leaders described as a stark choice between a...
About That Trump Assassination Conspiracy Theory
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack.
I find the rise of BlueMAGA very disturbing, and I’m surprised more people don’t. Or perhaps I’m...
Jordan Peterson’s Climate Culture War
Jordan Peterson delivered an urgent message for the rapt crowd on a warm spring evening at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, earlier this...
Will Harris ‘Go to China’ on Criminal Justice?
It has come to the most dangerous part of the campaign season, when it seems like better things are possible. But if hope can...
Shein Embraces AI, Sending Its Emissions Through the Roof
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes...