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The latest installments in Ric Burns’s documentary “New York” look at Gotham’s recent decades through rose-colored glasses. They ignore the political choices that eroded the city’s industrial base and reduced democratic influence on the economy.

The principal sources of the affordability crisis are less consumer goods and more child care, health care, and education. The Left’s response to that crisis should focus on universal, solidaristic, and visible social programs.

Alberta’s sovereignty push has failed, but the province’s Conservative infighting continues, and working people are paying the price. The government has spent its energy pursuing partisan advantage while neglecting Albertans’ everyday concerns.

After barring the opposition party from November’s elections, the far-right government of Daniel Noboa has arrested its leader, Luisa González, blurring the line between democracy and dictatorship.

In the new film “Fatherland,” Thomas Mann is a standard-bearer for a tradition of liberal humanism that, though in many ways noble, proves completely incapable of fending off the most terrible evils.

Ahead of Saturday’s mass protests in France, the government seemed almost desperate for new violent scenes. Lumping the organized left and protesters in with black bloc groups, it seeks to justify a broad crackdown on the high schoolers’ movement.

The latest episode of Ric Burns’s long-running documentary about New York City lionizes former Mayor Michael Bloomberg — despite the fact that he helped turn NYC into a monstrously unequal “luxury city.”

The price of eggs or gas induces a sense of sticker shock for many Americans. But decommodifying systems of social reproduction like child care and health care remains the most urgent and potentially transformative task of the Left.

Alberta’s referendum is over, but conservative factional fighting remains, while working families’ concerns go unmet. Nothing will change without a revival of working-class politics.

Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa’s far-right government jailed opposition leader Luisa González on Thursday, just weeks before local elections and a year after she grilled him over the use of his family’s banana shipments for cocaine trafficking.

With its stripped-down aesthetics, swift storytelling, and striking shades of black and white, “Fatherland” tells the story of an entire era in roughly an hour. It achieves an almost mythical stature, summoning an inheritance that extends from the ancient Greeks to the Germans.

France’s prime minister has touted shutting down social media in order to quell protests. Even without Marine Le Pen yet in power, the establishment is seeking authoritarian means to crack down on protests.

The heroes in the latest episodes of Ric Burns’s New York are enlightened bankers who ably guided the city’s evolution into the world’s financial capital. The story neglects the damaging effects of this transformation on working-class New Yorkers:

RT @jacobin: Today is the first Israeli election since October 7, 2023, but it isn’t a democratic election. Because Israel isn’t a democracy.

While progressive taxation is essential, sustainable social programs require Americans of all income brackets to pay higher taxes — which will be more than offset by the money households save through these universal programs like Medicare for All:

Thwarted separatists are turning on Alberta’s conservative leaders, deepening political turmoil in the province while health care, affordability, and education remain neglected:

The arrest of Ecuadoran opposition leader @LuisaGonzalezEc marks a shocking escalation in far-right President Daniel Noboa’s use of the courts to persecute opponents:

In “Fatherland,” never has the liberal humanist seemed so entitled to our respect — and so incapable of holding it:

The latest installments in Ric Burns’s documentary “New York” look at Gotham’s recent decades through rose-colored glasses. They ignore the political choices that eroded the city’s industrial base and reduced democratic influence on the economy.

The principal sources of the affordability crisis are less consumer goods and more child care, health care, and education. The Left’s response to that crisis should focus on universal, solidaristic, and visible social programs.