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The wages of wokeness

The new Showtime documentary 'Attica' covers the 1971 Attica uprising. Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks to Jacobin about the revolt and the state massacre that slaughtered prisoners and ended a movement for human dignity.

In the current polarized political atmosphere, many college graduates follow politics obsessively and identify with one of the two parties. Many working-class voters, on the other hand, vote for both parties and sit out some elections.

The $550 billion legislation includes some massive investments — while failing to fully address the country’s needs.

Responding to this pressure, public companies are selling their fossil fuel assets, only to have them repeatedly scooped up by private equity firms—thereby shifting pipelines and other polluting assets to a shadowy industry that is less accountable..

Islands have contributed little to global emissions yet stand to suffer disproportionately from climate change. Now, they are demanding more funding to protect themselves.

Baltimore Museum of Art workers are unionizing for livable wages, staff advancement, health and safety.

Upside Foods, which cannot yet legally sell its cultured meat, is ready to grow chicken for the masses, up to 400,000 pounds yearly.

"Conservative Democrats are trying to tell my community that we should just shut up and accept a half deal," Rep. C. Bush tweeted. "... We won't accept anything less than the President's full agenda."

Medieval weapons laws, including a 1328 English statute prohibiting the public carry of edged weapons without royal permission, are at the center of dueling legal opinions in the most important gun rights before the Supreme Court since 2008.