Lula Wins Fourth Term As Brazil President

Leftist incumbent Lula says unprecedented comeback was a ‘defeat for denialism’ as Bolsonaro refuses to accept election result

SpaceX Should Be Nationalized.

Otherwise, Elon Musk sets U.S. foreign policy.

Milwaukee’s Proud History of Baseball — and Socialism

The Milwaukee Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982. The small-market team’s success this season is a reminder of Milwaukee baseball’s progressive heritage and the city’s proud socialist history.

The Communist Thrillers of Anna Seghers

In her tautly suspenseful novels, fugitives stay one step ahead of the Nazis.

More Than One Million Lula Supporters Rally

Nearly 159 million people to head to polls on Sunday in battle between leftwing incumbent and Flávio Bolsonaro

How Do We Define Intelligence?

Critics began to challenge the validity of the IQ in the 1950s and ’60s. They noted that the IQ tests were racially and culturally biased.

Mississippi’s Black Majority and Political Power

Mississippi, the blackest state masquerading as a deep red state, has an opportunity to change course. In the race for U.S. Senate, Scott Colom, a Black Democrat, has a chance to unseat Cindy Hyde-Smith. And what a wondrous thing it would be.

Trump Cornered but Lethal

Hubris comes before a fall. But only if we give it a shove.

France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt

While media have fixated on the violence, French students achieved something rare on the weekend: Sectors that usually fight alone marched together.

Friday Nite Videos | October 23, 2026

With a Little Help From my Friends | Playing for Change. Can Trump Supporters Define Communism? Why Trump Wants Ukraine To Lose – and What To Do About It. Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Documentary. Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant.
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Culture

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Why Hadn’t We Seen Them Before

Dr. Mary Jane Castle
Drawing on her many years working in human rights and public health, poet Mary Ann Castle shows us that poverty can have many faces.

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Airman

Christine Holland
Poet Christine Holland reminds us of the sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell, who performed a self-immolation outside the Israeli embassy in Washington.

Labor

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Profits Are Soaring. Workers’ Share of Income Is Sinking.

Conor Lynch Jacobin magazine
Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.

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Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis

Liz Shuler and Heidi Shierholz TIME
A promise of a union is that workers will share in the profit they create. As soon as wealthy executives saw their bottom lines under threat, they attacked unions. The research proves what workers have always known: It's better in a union.

Friday nite video

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem | Documentary

A 1972 party engineered by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves brought together living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. This film brings the reunion of this extraordinary group to the screen, as they reminisce, critique, argue, laugh and drink. 

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Hawaii Just Made Citizens United Irrelevant.

The I-194 ballot initiative would stop artificial persons, including corporations, from contributing to campaigns and political parties.Your state could be next.

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Death by Firing Squad

When the murderer's dead and his head's in a bag, will it help you forget the way that you got had?