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.

Religious Left Makes a Play for Red-State Conservatives

Black clergy — including Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock — have a history of political action. But white clergy are stepping up to run as Democrats in substantial numbers, including U.S. candidates James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas.

Palestinian Voters Could Determine Israel’s Future

Many Israeli political parties, including those seeking to replace Netanyahu, continue to resist the idea of an Arab party participating in a governing coalition. But some of them also understand that a high turnout could help change the government.

How Tech Billionaires Are Disrupting Biomedical Science

Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done?

Trump’s Vile Defense of ‘That Ad’

The press is overhyping the “bipartisan” revulsion at Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad. In fact, the Trump and Republican responses bode ill for the last 12 days of the election campaign, and after.
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Culture

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.

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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.

books

Coal Miners and Class War: Review of Matewan Blood & Coal

Kurt Stand Portside
The West Virginia coal wars-fought between the United Mine Workers and coal operators, from 1912 to 1922 -there have been books and films about the conflict, it is little remembered. Kevin Corley’s novel, Matewan Blood & Coal, seeks to bridge the gap

Labor

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.

labor

How To Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

Nancy Folbre Dollars & Sense
How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

Friday nite 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. 

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?