Nick French is an associate editor at Jacobin magazine and a member of the Dollars & Sense editorial collective. With Neal Meyer, he cowrites the Left Notes newsletter, which covers politics, the labor movement, and philosophy from a democratic socialist perspective.
by Our Correspondent in Colombo A constitutional and institutional dilemma is emerging at the heart of Sri Lanka’s Parliament over the position of its current Speaker, Jagath Wickramaratne, following reports that the
In a fragrant garden near San Francisco, Hamid Hayat, 43, tells his story over a coldening frittata. He is a thin man in jeans, a T-shirt and a Dallas Cowboys cap. Almost every sentence begins with the same two words:
Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production plunged by nearly 2 million barrels per day in August to its lowest level in more than 35 years,
Editorial Sri Lanka’s exclusion from meaningful participation in BRICS should be treated as a diplomatic failure, not disguised as another routine event in international
ifty years ago, Republican President Richard M. Nixon resigned from the nation’s highest office, becoming the only U.S. president so far to do so. There is much to be said about Nixon’s
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