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A censure resolution is the most severe form of punishment in the House, and stripping a member of committee assignments deprives them of a powerful platform to influence legislation and give voice to constituent priorities.

Why COP 26 was an “utter betrayal”, and why Gramsci is good for us

he film and TV workers’ union IATSE ratified a pair of contracts on Monday, despite a majority of ballots being cast against the larger of the two deals. Thanks to the union’s Electoral College–style voting system, that contract passed anyway.

This book is written by a professor in the School of Marxism Studies at Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, and it aims to explain the theory and practice of contemporary governance in that country.

The victory followed a two-week hunger strike and two months of sit-ins.

Lifting up poor and working-class people—and our whole economy

And what isn’t in it but should be?

Financial vultures are pushing a new round of bankruptcy and austerity in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans themselves, meanwhile, continue to fight for pensions, basic services, and a democratic say in their lives that has been denied them so long.

Income disparity on the small screen, Zuckerberg's big rip-off, and more

“The Harder They Fall”, the dynamic black western, corrects the historical record. Manifest Destiny may have been a uniquely Anglo-Saxon concept, but white people weren’t alone in the westward expansion that followed the Civil War.