Lula’s Victory Offers Hope for Democracy and the Amazon

The win in Brazil, the win in Serbia, the probable win in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s disastrous far-right coalition, and the upcoming midterms in the US, show that the power belongs to the people

US Inequality, Getting Worse Ways You Might Not Expect

The buzzword of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections may be affordability, but growing anger over inequality is behind the sentiment.

Theournalism Industry Is on a Collision Course With AI

News publishers either fight tech oligarchs or we lose the Fourth Estate.

As to Trump’s Corruption, You Haven’t Seen It All

Corruptionland streams free online for all Americans one week before Election Day, and TNR readers are getting a first peek.

Media Bits and Bytes — October 27, 2026

Beating back the broligarchs

The No Kings Movement Is Already Planning for 2028

The leaders of the groups massing under the banner of “the resistance” have an audacious agenda for a Democratic Congress—and they tell The New Republic that they are ready to fight for it.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 28-Nov 3, 2026

Newspaper headline: "Mayor to Add 2,000 to the Police As Truck Strike Paralyzes Business"
The 1946 New York City Teamster Strike Exposed a Wide Gap Between Union Officials and the Rank and File, Plus a Gang of Monumentally Hypocritical Employers

Vučić Ousted by Student Movement in Seismic Election

Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests

Is Universal Healthcare Becoming a Winning Issue?

Democrats in the midterms are finally backing Medicare for All as a campaign issue amid a rising tide of US support

The Global Economy Runs on Care

Leaders of the G20 largest economies should transform the global care economy to improve labor conditions for these essential workers.
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Culture

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A Great Moral Blind Spot of Our Age

Nicholas Kristof The New York Times
The sickening situation in American meatpacking plants could soon get worse, for the Trump administration proposed raising the maximum normal speed of chicken slaughter lines from 140 birds per minute to 175 per minute.

poetry

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.

Labor

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Meta Must Reinstate Brazilian Bank Workers’ Union on WhatsApp, Says UNI

UNI Global Union UNI Global Union
Just days before Brazil's presidential run-off, Meta shut down the WhatsApp channel of a major union. WhatsApp was a key tool for organizing voters for the election between the former union leader Lula and the son of ousted authoritarian Bolsinaro.

labor

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.

labor

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

video

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.

video

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?