There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power

Mamdani, who praised the importance of libraries, faced criticism for slashing library funding earlier this year.

The Paris Commune was established 155 years ago, on March 18th, 1871. In Quentin Deluermoz's newly translated history of the commune, he shows how the Paris Commune reverberated around the globe, as a...