Corruption

An interview with Francis Fukuyama.

President Donald Trump is preparing to make one of the controversial personnel changes laid out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term.

The Trump administration announced it is moving forward with a new rule to reclassify some career civil servants as "at will" federal employees, a plan it says will make it easier to fire underperforming employees.

President Trump on Friday said that federal career employees working on policy issues will be reclassified as 'Schedule Policy/Career,' or at-will.

California challenges Trump's emergency tariffs in federal court as the state budget and trade with China hang in the balance.

Written under the alias of "Fedor Günther", this text by the KAPD member Ludwig Barbasch critiques the strategies of the Comintern, arguing that its support for national liberation, concessions to petit-bourgeois, peasant, and technical worker interests — via policies like the NEP, land distribution, union divisions, and capitalist ideologies — betrays the proletarian revolution by fostering capitalism and…

It appears to be official now. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when illicit activity is routed via crypto infrastructure, then it no longer qualifies as money laundering. Earlier this week the Department of Justice's deputy attorney general Todd Blanche sent out an internal staff memo saying that the digital asset industry (read: crypto) is "critical to the nation's economic development." (Editor's…

Professor Alexandra Bitušíková explains how face-to-face local activism was crucial in bringing down the neo-Nazi People's Party Our Slovakia

Beijing calls U.S. trade actions a "joke" and warns Washington about self-isolation.

The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, you have said that we have lost manufacturing because of taxes rather than tariffs. I believe you also said that a trade deficit is

Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is expanding his probe into his office's handling of U.S. Capitol riot prosecutions, comparing it to the government's treatment of Japanese Americans in World War II.

South Korea's Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, ending his tumultuous presidency and setting up an election to replace him.

A key U.S. ally has a leadership power vacuum.

Fascism doesn't just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

Donald Trump's trade war is a doomed quest fueled by nostalgia. Tariffs cannot bring back the era of mass manufacturing employment in the United States.

Marine Le Pen has been a superstar of Europe's far-right movement until a spectacular court ruling banned her from running for the French presidency in 2027.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cécile Alduy, a professor of French studies at Stanford and an expert on the French far right, about Marine Le Pen being found guilty of embezzlement.

President Trump's supporters have denounced the federal judges seeking to stall or stop this administration's government overhaul. But there is at least one person who, despite a show of...

A French court has barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from seeking the presidency in 2027. Does that square with her voters' democratic rights?