It’s increasingly difficult for US political commentators to neglect the centrality of socialism to the country’s affairs. We now see a spate of polling results and other commentary testifying to the ...

Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, ...

Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, was the most important German philosopher of the post-war era, though one whose abstruse and cumbersome style meant that he was never an easy read.