FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins

In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation of Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor. After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI.

Cancer Breakthrough Has Scientists Cheering—and Crying

They know RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are destroying the research ecosystem that made it possible.

Left Party Hopes To Turn Back Germany’s Fascist Wave

The leftist Die Linke party won the most votes in Berlin, even as the far right AfD won a state election in the north.

Why Black Socialists Opposed Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey built the largest black movement of his era on the promise of redeeming Africa. But he knew almost nothing about the continent, and his organization had nothing to offer black workers on the things that shaped their lives.

Global Left Midweek — September 23, 2026

Germany's big surprises

To Working People, AI Preemption Is the New NAFTA

What I’m hearing on the campaign trail suggests a deep divide between how the people and the powerful are thinking about AI

The Constitutional Rights at Stake for Journalists

Many commentators and members of the press have called Trump’s latest ban on the three news organizations a violation of the First Amendment. In fact, there’s more than one constitutional right involved in such a case.

‘Stunning’ Level of Support for Universal Health Care

Even more people want Medicare for All than did last December, a new poll shows.

Uganda is Now a Holding Ground for America’s Deportees

The secret deal that sent eight asylum-seekers halfway around the world.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — September 22, 2026

Stealing away democracy as midterms approach
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Culture

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Complications

William Berkowitz
At a time when the Trump administration attacks the Smithsonian for presenting a complicated picture of American history, poet William Berkowitz muses on how quickly society forgets its own history.

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Algiers, Black Panthers, Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries

Ben Ehrenreich The Guardian
In the 1960s, Algeria became an international home for exiled artists, intellectuals and freedom fighters. Elaine Mokhtefi, who died in New York City on September 11 at age 97, met them all. Here is a 2018 review of her memoir.

Labor

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DoorDash To Pay $131.5M To Settle Wage Theft Affecting 260,000

Carter Myers-Brown The Chief
New York City officials announced a record $131.5 million settlement with the app-based delivery company Door Dash on Tuesday, saying the delivery company illegally underpaid more than 260,000 workers.

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AutoZone Workers Are Trying To Form the Company’s First-Ever Union

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
AutoZone workers went public in July with their drive to join United Auto Workers Local 259. Workers’ rights watchdog LaborLab estimates that the parts retailer AutoZone has paid $210,696 to managers and lawyers to crush their effort.

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Persecuted by Trump, Will Unions Build Towards May 2028?

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
May 2028 is now only a year and a half away. Are unions getting in gear for a season of strikes and labor action around then, as contracts expire in manufacturing, education, logistics, grocery, and the building trades?

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Why COSATU’s Congress Collapsed

Greg Dor GroundUp
For the first time in its 40 year history, SA’s biggest union gathering did not reach quorum. COSATU said the congress would be reconvened within one month, as required by its constitution.

Friday nite video

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An Economist Explains: This Is How To Tax Billionaires

Mehdi Hasan sits down with economist Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s leading experts on tax avoidance and wealth inequality. “If you want to ensure that the super rich pay their fair share, you have to go after wealth itself.”

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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

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It Ain’t Fun Being MAGA No More | Parody Song

If you’re into protest songs, comedy music, or viral political parodies that challenge authoritarian trends and call out hypocrisy, this one hits all the right notes