Category: Politics
The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times
The devastating outcome of the 1983 game reveals that nuclear escalation inevitably spirals out of control.
Pakistan: Comprador Nation
Ammar Ali Jan: Since 1958, US backing for the army –seen as an essential counterweight to Soviet influence –has made the country’s political sphere hostile for democratic forces.
Noam Chomsky at 96
The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence…
This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
Karl Marx explained the 19th Century. Wolfgang Streeck, the German maverick thinker, is explaining the 21st.
Becoming Lula
Lula, a new biography of Brazil’s current third-term president, describes the tension on the morning of April 7, 2018.
Will Anyone Vote for Abundance?
Thomas Hochman at The New Atlantis: Ever since Derek Thompson introduced the term “abundance agenda”…
New Era: Social Media Platforms and AI Challenging Mainstream Narrative
“The media is not all about state-of-the-art technology and the use of AI, but about…
Economic Populism: Republicans For Labor
“We’re for American workers who want to build a life in their homes with dignified jobs and raise the families supported by those dignified jobs.”
What Does Democracy Look Like?
That we associate democracy with political demonstration is no surprise. After all, democracy is the rule of the people, and…
America and the World
(T)he period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and the election of Donald Trump exactly thirty-five years later comes to constitute an ‘era’…
Fighting the Far Right in India
Sarah Thankam Mathews at Lux converses with Raghu Karnad on the Hindu nationalist right and the trial of Arundhati Roy.
Weaponizing Aid
Palestinians are “aid dependent” as the term goes, and the politicization of that fact is not a new phenomenon.