Daily Digest

The US Department of Homeland Security's repeated unauthorized use of artists' work to promote mass deportations reveals the contradictions inherent in deploying nostalgic cultural imagery to manufacture consent for state violence. By appropriating Hiroshi Nagai's dreamlike Americana...

The detention ruling against Brian Cole Jr., accused of planting pipe bombs at both Democratic and Republican headquarters before the January 6th Capitol attack, offers a window into the contradictions of individual acts of political violence divorced from organized class struggle. Cole's stated...

Zohran Mamdani's inauguration as New York City's first democratic socialist mayor represents a significant moment in American electoral politics, but one that immediately reveals the structural constraints facing progressive governance within capitalist state systems. While his platform promises...

The emergence of gun violence survivors as political candidates represents a significant shift in how working-class communities are attempting to address a crisis that disproportionately affects them. While the article frames this as a victory for grassroots organizing—with figures like Justin...

The revelation that China threatened to cancel high-level trade talks over a British minister's Taiwan visit exposes the fundamental tension between capital's need for market access and the geopolitical maneuvering of competing state powers. The UK government's scramble to preserve the trade...

The current uprising in Iran represents a convergence of internal economic collapse and external imperial maneuvering, with Iranian workers and small merchants caught between a theocratic state incapable of resolving its contradictions and a United States seeking to exploit popular grievances for...

The election of Zohran Mamdani as New York City's mayor represents a significant moment in American urban politics, emerging directly from the material conditions of extreme inequality that define contemporary metropolitan life. His explicit rejection of billionaire wealth and commitment to...

The deadly fire at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana that killed approximately 40 people and injured 100 reveals the material contradictions embedded in the luxury tourism industry. This tragedy occurred in a space designed to maximize capacity and profit—a venue accommodating over 300 people...

A coalition of progressive politicians, labor unions, and tenant organizations is attempting to resolve a fundamental contradiction in American climate politics: the historical framing of environmental action as requiring working-class sacrifice while capital accumulates profits. This strategic...