U.S. Elections

A DSA member just won one of the most significant left-wing electoral victories in recent memory with Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York — despite red-baiting, anti-Palestinian smears, and a full-on campaign to demonize socialism. But that victory has raised big questions: Why keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner?...

As the world slides deeper into imperial rot — from Trump’s transformation of the U.S. into a Department of War state, to Europe’s political collapse, to global leaders shamelessly bowing to Washington — a socialist shockwave has erupted in New York City: Zohran Mamdani has just won the mayoral race...

As the New York City mayoral race intensifies, bail reform has become a defining issue for some of the city’s most influential donors. A network of billionaires and corporate figures has rallied behind former governor Andrew Cuomo, now running as an independent, while portraying his opponent, Democrat Zohran Mamdani, as...

Lawrence Grandpre, Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, discusses how Zohran Mamdani’s win as the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor has sparked intense debates over public safety. He explains the need for the Left to “dominate this conversation on funding community-led grassroots Black orgs,” which...

U.S. elite politicians and media are panicking over the victory of self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the New York City Mayoral Democratic primary. What are they so afraid of? Professor Richard Wolff and Brian Becker break down the American elite’s uniquely extreme anticommunism, and the long history of socialists...

Dr. Ben Becker, Editor-in-Chief of BreakThrough News, breaks down the Republican budget bill, cynically titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which passed the House and aims to transfer even more wealth to billionaires while gutting the programs working people rely on to survive. Becker explains how, if enacted, the bill...

Daniel Lakemacher joined the US Navy as a hospital corpsman. He was deployed to Guantanamo. Even though he was told that the people imprisoned there dangerous terrorists, he quickly learned that this was a lie along with everything else about the “War on Terror.” Here’s his story.

In his address to Congress yesterday, Trump declared war on immigrants, civil rights reforms, Mexico, Canada, Denmark, Panama, social service programs, and more. Meanwhile, the Democrats only put up nominal, performative resistance — in keeping with their “play dead” strategy. Brian is joined by Dr. Nazia Kazi, a professor of...

The US wants to make Ukraine a colony. The deal Trump and Zelensky are signing forces Ukraine to give its mineral wealth to the US, likely for generations. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains how the US used Ukrainians as cannon fodder only to make them pay for it after.

Doug Henwood, economic journalist and host of the podcast Behind the News, joins the show to discuss how Trump has stacked his administration with crypto entrepreneurs, launched his second cryptocurrency, and pledged to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet.” Henwood explains the danger of Trump’s actions and...