This essay demonstrates how both Apartheid South Africa and Israel operated as outposts of US imperialism during the Cold War in related, connected, and changing ways. In addition, heightening confli...

Every season, there’s a particular sort of novel that elicits its own genre of disdain. It’s somehow “too personal” and also lacking in “depth.” It’s called things like indulgent, trashy, lazy,…

Oct 06, 2026, Aaron Boehmer

Preserved like frozen eddies in the whirlwind of a moral panic are the words of a national journalist, days after J.K. Rowling publishes her essay on the threat of the trans rights movement. Shona …

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In Alberta and elsewhere, the far-right is using referendums to mainstream white nationalism

Shane Burley interviews former editor of the Black Panther Newspaper JoNina Abron-Ervin about her time in the Party and radical organizing today.

Zachary Levenson interviews Heba Gowayed about her work on the political economy of border securitization and migration.

Abigail Boggs details how US universities have become instruments of mass immigration enforcement and what it would mean to transform them into sites of abolitionist sanctuary.

Elaine Wik looks at the political economy subtending the dynamics of conflict and securitization at the India/Bangladesh border.

Doug Hornstein argues against leftist support for immigration restriction by challenging their assumption that immigration hurts workers.

Rawan Abdelbaki and Rana Sukarieh argue that Zionism is a project of bordering that is both materially embedded in, and helps proliferate, global racial capitalism.

Amidst the US governments' attacks on migrants, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo argues for an anticolonial movement demanding all rights for all, without borders.

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

Zachary Levenson interviews Heba Gowayed about her work on the political economy of border securitization and migration.

Chanda is a scientist and science populariser I adore - whether it is "queering the universe" or explaining how Star Trek has rocked her w

D. K Renton compares the ideological balance of power between reactionary hegemons and their allies in the interwar period and today.

Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Joshua Frank about ecosocialism and the often overlooked costs of the transition to renewable energy.

Shane Burley tracks the Loyalist history fueling the anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast.

Two comrades look to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.

Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience.

Occasioned by the release of Andor, Jonathan Brown reflects on the class politics of the Star Wars media empire and capitalism's cultural logic.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts’ visit to Syria in mid-July 2026 and its subsequent report published a few weeks later in August has been celebrated by various Syrian authorities and officia...

In a case with sweeping implications, supporters are fighting hard to defend the Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.

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