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Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living

In an era suffused with loss and grief, for the dead and the yet to be born, how do we politicise our mourning? Critic Sarah Jaffe talks about her search for the ghosts of capitalism in her new book, From The Ashes.

Motherhood In and Against the State

The relationship between mothers and the state is never anything but awkward – and often paradoxical, even violent. The author of a new political history of motherhood explains why.

Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth

Mining obliterates ecosystems. But green energy projects urgently need what they extract. Can we square the circle of this necessary destruction?

Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley

California's tech billionaires were once famously liberal. No more. What does their shift to the far right mean for the 2024 US election?

Macron’s Own Goal

What the hell just happened in the French elections? We explore the long crisis that led to Macron's electoral gamble and consider the odds of a far-right France.

Britain’s Infrastructure Is Crumbling. Can Labour Fix It?

Why does it feel like nothing works anymore?

Keir Starmer walks through Whitehall

It’s the End of the Tory Party As We Know It (And I Feel Nothing)

James Butler paints a picture of Britain at a historic crossroads, waving fuckity bye to the Tories and bracing for Starmerism.

How Labour’s Left-Wing Firebrands Fought Back

It's not the first time the Labour left has seemed defeated, but the difference this time is that their ideas are more popular than ever. Can the left come back?

Tony Blair and George W. Bush at the NATO summit

Where Will Labour Invade This Time?

From the war in Iraq to the Malaya counterinsurgency, Labour governments have been in power during some of Britain's worst colonial blunders. What should we expect this time?

Israeli soldiers detain an Israeli peace activist as hundreds of Israeli left wing activists try to enter the West Bank town of Huwara, to show solidarity with Palestinians following a deadly settler rampage there earlier in the week on February 27, 2023 in Huwara, Israel.

Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left?

Israel has swung hard to the right in the last few decades, but a left remains. They are calling not just for a ceasefire, but for an end to the apartheid regime. What power do they have?

The Right Is Getting Real on Climate. Can We?

It's time to turn our collective exhaustion into another form of climate politics, says Ajay Singh Chaudhary.

Hijras in Bangalore

The Dolls Hold All the Receipts

Jules Gill-Peterson, author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny, points to the richness of life beyond gender norms.

Living Through the Chinese Miracle

Should we romanticise China? Yuan Yang fills us in on the human costs of its rise.

All Of Which Are American Dreams…

Know Your Enemy hosts Sam Adler-Bell and Matthew Sitman analyse the state of conservatism across the Atlantic.

Your Neighbour Kills Puppies

Imprisoned animal rights activist Tom Harris tells Rivkah Brown about a campaign that inspired Palestine Action.

Read Some Effing Jameson!

Sianne Ngai and Matthew Beaumont unpack one of the great critics of our time as he turns 90.

London’s Endless Appetite

What does a colonial metropolis have for dinner? Vittles founder Jonathan Nunn and writer Amardeep Singh Dhillon explain.

Colonial Capitalism Has Made Us Sick

Rupa Marya and Raj Patel prescribe the "deep medicine" of decolonisation to cure our bodies, societies and the planet.

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