Socialists have always tried to hide the true nature of socialism, presenting it as a mechanism to advance freedom when, in ...

tyranny, capitalism vs. socialism, the Right vs. the Left, conservatism vs. (current) liberalism, (some) Republicans vs. (all) Democrats. Tyrants don’t want you to be free. If you are free ...

Unrepresentative political parties certainly haven’t helped our democracy. But can rebuilding parties save it?

Our political parties are more of personality cults than being places of real debate. Places where ideological thought and opinion is fostered. True, what we think of parties are but amalgamations ...

My argument was that during the Cold War, capitalism and communism acted as ... However, the democratic socialism that emerged as the repudiation of Donald Trump's platform in 2016 under the ...

Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age, and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God. Letters & Politics Winter Book ...

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There is a new world disorder – and it is one of crisis and catastrophe. Capitalism promises us a bleak future. But why is the system so messed up? And why is no one in power doing anything ...

There is a new world disorder – and it is one of crisis and catastrophe. Capitalism promises us a bleak future. But why is the system so messed up? And why is no one in power doing anything ...

Sue Dewar cartoon for Feb. 12, 2025.

Mainers (from left to right) Everal Eaton, Tessa Corsetti, Scott Gagnon, and Jill Harlow shared how federal layoff and cuts under the Trump administration have negatively impacted them. Photos by ...