Daily Digest

This live blog reveals the increasingly naked instrumentalization of state apparatus for partisan consolidation. Trump's delay of Jay Clayton's intelligence nomination—explicitly conditioning it on passage of voter ID legislation—demonstrates how the executive branch treats critical national...

This G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains offers a revealing window into the contradictions plaguing the Western imperialist alliance. The extraordinary scenes of European leaders literally waiting in a room while Trump, Macron, and Zelenskyy conducted separate negotiations demonstrates the fundamental...

The US-Iran framework agreement represents a moment of inter-imperialist negotiation where the primary contradiction—between US hegemonic interests and Iranian regional power—temporarily finds accommodation, while secondary contradictions intensify. Trump's characterization of Israel's war on...

The administrative mishap that delayed Luigi Mangione's court appearance provides a revealing window into how the capitalist state manages threats to ruling class security. While prosecutors admit a simple paperwork failure prevented the defendant's transport, the broader pattern of sealed...

The City & Guilds scandal exemplifies the systematic transfer of socially-created wealth into private hands that characterizes neoliberal privatization. Here we see an institution founded in 1878 to provide public vocational education—built through decades of collective labor and public...

The Trump administration's $75 million investment in an Oakland coal terminal exemplifies how capitalist states deploy public resources to sustain unprofitable industries while externalizing costs onto working-class communities of color. West Oakland—a neighborhood shaped by redlining, industrial...

This live blog from the Guardian captures a revealing snapshot of British political economy in crisis mode. Three distinct but interconnected threads emerge: escalating defence spending demands backed by cross-party consensus, Reform UK's explicitly xenophobic 'migrant labour levy' designed to...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo presents a stark illustration of how colonial extraction and imperial underdevelopment continue to determine who lives and who dies in the global system. While the article frames the crisis through humanitarian concern and technical...

The Maine Senate race crystallizes a fundamental contradiction within the Democratic Party: its structural inability to authentically represent working-class interests while remaining dependent on corporate donors and establishment power brokers. When party leaders rallied behind septuagenarian...