The UK government's rushed announcement of social media restrictions for under-16s reveals the structural tensions between capital accumulation and child welfare under neoliberalism. While Health Secretary Wes Streeting's comparison of Big Tech to Big Tobacco correctly identifies the extractive...
This live blog captures a day in the ongoing consolidation of right-wing power in America, revealing multiple simultaneous fronts of class warfare. The Texas Senate runoff between Cornyn and Paxton represents not a meaningful policy contest but an intra-class struggle over the preferred style of...
Ohio State University's convergence of scandals—decades of covered-up sexual abuse, presidential corruption involving misuse of public funds, and systematic attacks on academic freedom—cannot be understood as isolated institutional failures. These crises emerge from the fundamental transformation...
The reported consultation between Andy Burnham and Sue Gray on forming a potential government reveals the profoundly technocratic nature of contemporary social democratic politics. What presents itself as a story about Labour's future is actually a demonstration of how thoroughly working-class...
The California governor's race exposes fundamental contradictions within the Democratic Party's coalition and reveals the structural limitations of electoral politics under capitalism. Despite representing the 'resistance' to Trump, California Democrats find themselves unable to articulate what...
Rodney Taylor's case illuminates how U.S. immigration enforcement operates as a mechanism of class discipline and capital accumulation rather than public safety. A double amputee barber detained for over a year based on a teenage conviction that Georgia itself pardoned reveals the systematic...
The Santa Rosa Island wildfire presents a stark illustration of how ecological preservation operates within—and against—capitalist material relations. The immediate crisis concerns six endemic plant species, including a subspecies of Torrey pine found nowhere else on Earth, now threatened by an...
The diversion of an Air France flight to Canada over a Congolese passenger's presence reveals the contradictions at the heart of global public health governance under capitalism. While framed as decisive action to 'protect public health,' these measures expose how wealthy nations externalize risk...
The Trump administration's screen time advisory exemplifies how the capitalist state manages social crises produced by capital accumulation while carefully avoiding any challenge to the underlying profit structures. Health officials warn of genuine harms—disrupted sleep, diminished learning...