25 Years Later, the Deportation Machine Has Exploded

Rights that apply to some people are not rights. They are privileges with an expiration date, and that date moves every single time this country gets scared.

Game Changers: How To Build the Economy We Deserve

What’s needed are bold yet realistic policies that break cleanly from the corruption of the Trump years and the free-market fundamentalist era that preceded them. Righting the rules means an end to game-rigging by ruling elites ...

America: A Fossil Fuel Island in a Greentech World?

What does the global Greentech revolution mean for the American people? It could open new vistas of a Greentech New Deal. But as long as the US opposes rather than joining the Greentech revolution, it portends not only climate catastrophe, but econo

This Supreme Court Decision While Good is Alarming

The high court declines to let Trump blow up the midterms, but this should have been a unanimous decision.

Media Bits and Bytes — September 15, 2026

Buried alive in AI

This Week in People’s History, Sep 16–22, 2026

Leaflet from September 2001 about health hazards resulting from the collapse of the World Trade Center in Manhattan
No More Dangerous Than a Smoggy Day, Said the Experts (2001), ‘There Is Power In a Union’! (1986)

U.S. Absent from Meet on Wartime Civilian Protection

A multinational group meets this week at NATO headquarters in Belgium to discuss protections for civilians during combat. Even though the U.S. co-founded this effort, no American delegation will be in the room.

Fête De l’Humanité: “Joy in the Struggle”

Seven months before the first round of the presidential election, the public at the Fête de l'Humanité gathered to gather arguments and strength. Their objective: to block the path of a far right that believes it is on the verge of power.

The Solidarity of Community: Minnesotans on ICE Surge

Workers and community members gave public testimony at the Convergence for Democracy about the human rights violations they experienced during Operation Metro Surge.

Angie Nixon Is Fighting for the Right To Read

The Florida Senate candidate responded to Republican book-banning schemes by opening a bookstore.
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Culture

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The Party of Baristas

Gabriel Winant Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

Labor

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The Left Needs More Working-Class Leaders

Jake Triola Jacobin
A new report finds a massive divide between working-class voters and college-educated progressives. Closing it means handing working-class people real power over a left-wing program.

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They Cleaned Up Ground Zero. Now Many Are Hiding From ICE

Jasmine Gersd NPR
Women in profile in a living room. It's not known how many undocumented workers were involved in the 9/11 cleanup, but advocates say it's somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 people. The fear of being picked up by Immigration has added to the PTSD which most of the group suffer.

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Things Get Weird at the GOP Midterm 'Convention'

Michael Kosta dives into the highlights, including Trump’s pledge to give out $5,000 "dividends" if the GOP wins the House and Senate and the president's unhelpful roast of Ken Paxton

Murdering 60 Minutes

What corporate consolidation and oligarch ownership mean for journalism, democracy, and the public’s access to independent information, and what the public can do to defend a free press