14+ hour, 14+ min ago  (1350+ words) Left-wing movements and ideas have had a major impact on the history of Bangladesh since independence. But the country's left has failed to adapt to new circumstances and now faces a choice between wholesale renovation and a slide into irrelevance....

19+ hour, 27+ min ago  (793+ words) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney touts a new era of industrial policy and state-led development. But instead of rebuilding public capacity, he is turning the state into a guarantor of private capital while asking workers to trust in trickle-down prosperity....

14+ hour, 9+ min ago  (433+ words) Gustavo Petro's "economy for life" captures something essential about the planetary crisis. Turning it into a program requires confronting the structures that stand in the way. The Progressive International, the Colombian government, and local think tanks coorganized the conference "Economy…...

21+ hour, 27+ min ago  (671+ words) The Criterion Channel's excellent new "Office Romances" retrospective shows how Hollywood's classic workplace comedies exposed a deep panic about women who dared to be competent. Kay Francis and David Manners star in William Dieterle's Man Wanted. (Warner Bros.) The Criterion…...

18+ hour, 12+ min ago  (284+ words) New Bulgarian Premier Rumen Radev's Progressive Bulgaria party is more conservative than it sounds. It's also unfair to call it pro-Kremlin, despite alarmist claims in international media casting the party as stooges of Vladimir Putin. To be sure, like many…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1192+ words) Over four years into Russia's war in Ukraine, some of the Russians imprisoned in its early days are still in jail. Even people with no previous political activism have been landed with long prison sentences in order to crush dissent....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (502+ words) A new book defends a Marxist theory of the origins of capitalism. Along the way it shows why understanding the transition from feudalism can help us make sense of the present." Review of Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (260+ words) Genocide apologists have declared the New York Times's Nicholas Kristof's report on Israeli soldiers' rape of Palestinians is "blood libel." If that sounds familiar, it's because they've said the same thing for three years about every Israeli war crime. That…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (341+ words) The robots are coming" need not be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life. Fear and…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (953+ words) The Scottish National Party won its 5th consecutive term in office last week. But the party's tepid brand of centrism still looks worn out, and the only big advances came for Reform on the right and the Greens on the left....