MR_online

• Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value

  

  Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

• Lancet study warns plastics could cost humanity 83 million years of healthy life

  

  “Systemic change is needed ‘from the cradle to the grave’ of plastic production, use, and disposal,” said the lead author, calling for “ambitious action from governments and industry transparency.”

• An armada is sailing toward Iran: Trump

  

  “It is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence,” he said.

• ‘Nothing about what is going on here is normal’: A fight over evidence in Good, Pretti cases

  

  Minnesota Deputy Solicitor General: ‘(We have) very serious concerns that Pretti’s alleged firearm was not handled properly’.

• European leader alarmed by Trump after Mar-a-Lago meeting

  

  Slovakia's PM Robert Fico reportedly expressed shock at Trump's mental state after a private meeting, contradicting his public praise of the U.S. president.