Various explanations have been offered for the weaker than expected Republican performance, in the context of a deeply unpopular President and high inflation. Among the leading hypotheses is the poor ...

For me, the single most beautiful room of the twentieth century is the underground hall of Mayakovskaya Metro Station in the centre of Moscow, which was designed in 1936 and opened in 1938. Named ...

Having never previously aligned themselves with either the left or right bloc, the Greens successfully pivoted to the left in this election, making headway on the issues of oil and Palestine. The ...

an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Election results can often be a Rorschach test for pundits, the patterns they discern revealing as much about their ideological disposition as the political landscape. This is especially true in the ...

Trump is set on bringing the Federal Reserve to heel. Over the summer he succeeded in installing one of his key economic advisers, Stephen Miran, on its Board of Governors, attempted to remove another ...

Robert Brenner’s article in nlr 104 concerns a number of issues that have been the subject of debate within Marxism.footnote 1 Its focus is the explanation of the origins of capitalism, and related ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

It has become a truism among Anglophone commentators that the world is in the grip of ‘geoeconomics’, the pursuit of geopolitical ends by economic means. In September 2024, Mario Draghi’s report on ...