The Empire Comes Home Commentary by Fiorella Isabel There seems to be a systemic crisis rooted in the nature of the U.S. American empire, resulting in an “Imperialist Boomerang”—a consequence of decades of interventionist foreign…
By WIRED staff IN JANUARY 2026, two Americans were killed in the act of watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Renee Nicole Good was acting as a legal observer while her wife recorded…
By Jianlu Bi Recently, a wave of digital shockwaves rippled across Chinese social media platforms like Bilibili and Xiaohongshu. It wasn’t triggered by a geopolitical skirmish or a trade dispute, but by a viral video…
An interview with Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay By Eric Blanc ICE and the Border Patrol’s terror campaign has taken the lives of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and led to the abduction of five-year-old Liam…
Commentary by William Murphy When survival becomes illegal in your own city, displacement isn’t a side effect—it’s the policy. This is the quiet logic of the Erasure Economy: a political system that systematically removes people…
But There’s a Degrowth Exit up Ahead By Stan Cox Let me start by putting things bluntly: Don’t bother to tell Donald Trump, but with his distinct help, we’re doing nothing less than cooking ourselves….
in NC Despite Soaring Disconnections By Sue Sturgis Duke Energy has asked North Carolina regulators to approve major rate hikes for both of its North Carolina utilities while also increasing the “return on equity” that…
Reshaping everything from utilities to environmental regulation in North Carolina By Doug Bock Clark North Carolina voters have chosen Democrats in three straight elections for governor; the state’s Republican-led legislature has countered by siphoning off…
By Joshua Peters Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts to give one political party or group an advantage over others. The term “gerrymandering” was coined in the early 19th century…
By Synclaire Cruel It had been more than 160 days since North Carolina had a state budget when, on November 19, the North Carolina Senate Democratic Caucus held “The Real-World Impact of Failing to Pass…