Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

On ‘late capitalism’.Late capitalism is an ambiguous term. Lateness may imply death or an ending, as when we speak of my late grandfather or the late afternoon. When the German social theorist Werner ...

Elections in Poland.Having been lauded by liberal commentators as the saviour of Europe, Poland has now returned to its previous role as the continent’s reprobate. Presidential elections on 18 May ...

Regime change in Tehran?The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating ...

Manmohan Singh’s India.In June 1991, when Manmohan Singh heard that he was about to be appointed finance minister of India, he thought it must be a joke. It was inconceivable that a sixty-year-old ...

Israel attacks Iran.The Israeli assault on Iran – launched as the genocide against the Palestinian people grinds on – follows a grimly familiar script. As with its previous campaigns in Lebanon and ...