It was the jam session that rocked Asia. In January, a video of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung drumming to K-Pop hits went viral, heralding a new diplomatic era between their countries. Now it seems the band is back together and taking it on the road. This week, the two leaders are meeting again in Lee’s hometown of Andong. The two-day…

The Trump administration has detained a staggering number of Cuban immigrants while denying them permanent residency, which could have consequences for Republicans in November.

The _Miami Herald_ , citing an analysis from the libertarian Cato Institute, reports that ICE arrests of Cuban nationals have gone up by 463 percent since December 2024, while green card approvals have dropped by 99.8…

Voters in New Jersey were hungry for change—so they elected a progressive Democrat.

Analilia Mejia won in a landslide in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district Thursday, beating out her Republican opponent Joe Hathaway to serve the remainder of former Representative Mikie Sherrill’s term. Sherrill’s seat was left suddenly vacant after she won the state’s gubernatorial election.

The daughter…

The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resources.

The resource wars between the US and China have accelerated the determination of both sides to escape their dependencies on each…

Setting aside the many problems with the tone, tactics, style and substance of President Donald Trump’s demand that “one way or the other” the U.S. will control the Danish territory of Greenland, there may be a silver lining in his Greenland gambit: It has highlighted for Americans and Europeans the Arctic’s importance. America’s security depends on defense of, deterrence across, and presence in…

After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage for service workers, keeping them stuck in precarity and poverty wages.

The subminimum wage for service workers creates a two-tiered labor system that intensifies the exploitation of precarious workers — and the Chicago city council voted last week to block an attempt…

The US-Israel war with Iran has made energy prices soar across the globe. In a world increasingly dominated by imperial war and great-power conflicts, inflation will become an ordinary feature of politics.

With shipping halted and storage insufficient, most petroleum and LNG production in the region including Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia…

Increasing costs for oil and natural gas will raise prices on games and much more

A popular Washington game is to oversell tax cuts to lower-income people. Republicans have excelled at this for half a century. Now Democrats want to play, too.

In the most familiar version of the game, a Republican president promises to slash income taxes but ends up mainly doing so for rich people. Ordinary people may get a cut, but it’s very small. Thus President George W. Bush’s tax cuts in…

By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.

Kwame Nkrumah (left), Ghana’s prime minister, with Martin Luther King Jr. during King’s visit to Accra for Ghana’s independence celebrations, March 1957. Photo courtesy of…