Musa al-Gharbi

The life and death of Jason Arday hit really close to home for me.

Going into the Michigan Democratic primary elections earlier this month, polls showed Dr.

In the June 23 NYC Democratic primary elections, recently-elected mayor Zohran Mamdani pulled off a series of coups.

I’ve seen the incident several times and from many different angles.

It’s been a rough decade for the political left in the U.S.

On June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted aggressive raids in Los Angeles, sweeping up gainfully employed workers with no criminal record.

Increased stratification and declining social mobility.

Beginning in the period between the world wars, and accelerating over the last half-century, the global economic order and political sphere have been restructured to the benefit of a category of people I call “symbolic capitalists.”

The Trump Administration has withheld $400 million dollars in federal funds from Columbia University and vowed to remove even more if the president’s demands are not met.

Media outlets consistently publish pieces about symbolic capitalists who understand and describe themselves as poor, or struggling, or barely getting by, or broke (e.g. here, here, here)– often despite healthy six figure incomes and/or low expenses (becau…