The deployment of ICE agents to US airports amid a partial government shutdown represents a significant convergence of manufactured political crisis and the expansion of the security state. What the article presents as a practical response to TSA staffing shortages is better understood as an...
This live blog captures the British state in crisis management mode during an escalating US-Iran conflict, revealing the fundamental class character of capitalist governance. While Prime Minister Starmer promises to examine 'every lever' to address cost of living pressures, the actual policy...
This article from rural Kentucky reveals a sharpening contradiction at the heart of American capitalism: the state can mobilize $16.5 billion in twelve days for war while claiming poverty when it comes to feeding children, funding schools, or rebuilding communities devastated by...
This live blog captures a critical moment in British politics where multiple threads reveal the accelerating rightward drift of bourgeois democracy. Reform UK's chaotic Scottish launch—featuring candidates who endorse Tommy Robinson, spread Islamophobic content, and committed financial...
This sprawling political live-blog reveals the contemporary British ruling class managing multiple legitimation crises simultaneously. The Conservative Party, facing electoral oblivion, pivots to explicit anti-Muslim rhetoric—with Kemi Badenoch defending Nick Timothy's characterization of public...
The nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security reveals the theatrical nature of ruling-class legitimacy in the American political system. Mullin—who inherited a plumbing company rather than building one, and who has constructed an elaborate mythology around...
This PMQs session reveals the spectacular nature of bourgeois parliamentary politics: while Starmer and Badenoch trade accusations over Islamophobia and the Mandelson-Epstein connection, the substantive economic questions raised by the Green Party's Polanski go largely unaddressed. The real...
This live politics coverage reveals two interlocking dynamics shaping British politics: a public health emergency exposing the material consequences of healthcare rationing, and right-wing populist forces exploiting economic precarity to advance regressive class politics. The meningitis outbreak...
The Trump administration's conflict with the Supreme Court over tariff authority represents not a battle between democracy and authoritarianism, but rather a factional dispute within the capitalist class over how best to manage declining U.S. hegemony. The president's late-night social media...