The release of three Israeli women held captive in Gaza on Sunday attracted significant global media attention. However, there was comparatively limited coverage of the freed Palestinian women, who had been kidnapped and detained by Israel without charge. This disparity reflects the normalization of the dehumanization of Palestinians, perpetuating a narrative that enables Israel to More

The UK’s decrepit first-past-the-post electoral system virtually guarantees a two-party grip on parliamentary power. Since WW2 the two parties in question have been the Conservatives and Labour, with the Conservatives enjoying 3 long spells in power,1950-64, 1979-1997, and 2010-2024, countered only by Labour’s Blair/Brown ascendency in 1997-2010. Labour’s single term in power from 1945-1950, however, saw the momentous creation of the UK’s welfare state, which started to erode as a policy choice when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979– a phase that was also coterminous with the onset of the neoliberalism of which she was a devotee. More

Take Jeff Bezos, for instance. Occasionally the richest person on Earth—depending on stock market fluctuations and divorce settlements—Bezos built Amazon into an online shopping juggernaut, where everything is cheap and delivered with lightning speed by exploited workers. He also owns The Washington Post, which adopted the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” at the beginning of Donald Trump’s first presidential term. This was both a clear jab at Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and a calculated appeal to thirsty Resistance liberals and Never-Trump conservatives. Bezos seemed to be trying to position himself as a “benevolent billionaire” in the general public’s eye, in contrast to Trump’s extravagant vulgarity. More