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How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era

What's Next After “No Kings” Nationwide Protests

People from across the country marched. Now what?

Gaza Ceasefire, Peace or a Slow Genocide?

The goal now is to turn eyes away from Gaza and deflect accountability after two years of global mobilisation demanding not only peace, but also justice, liberation and return

Arthur Waskow, Progressive Activist Rabbi Dies at 92

Waskow became one of the leading voices bringing Jewish spiritual wisdom to bear on the progressive political agenda. Waskow was arrested more than two dozen times for his activism.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — October 21, 2025

Doing the Time Warp again

Bernie Sanders Fiery No Kings Speech in DC

This is not the end. This is just the beginning. Together, when we stand united, we will create the kind of nation that you and I know we can become. A nation devoted to freedom, justice and democracy.

Journalist Jelani Cobb on Race in Trump’s America

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 22–28, 2025

Magazine advertisement for DDT spray
DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (1940), Happy Birthday, Mike Doonesbury! (1970)

Celebrating Lenny Bruce’s 100th Birthday

Today, it is an understatement to say that mainstream U.S. society is sick with what Lenny called “false values.” Tip-of-the-iceberg evidence of how a sick U.S. society has gotten sicker? In 2024, an in-your-face scumbag bully was elected president.

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.
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YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started

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In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

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Bravery on the Front Lines in the Face of Fascism

Paul Von Blum The Progressive
A new comics collection from Raymond Tyler and Paul Buhle tells the stories of unsung partisan heroes who fought fascism across Europe. We have no alternative. Time is short. We should admire the heroes of Partisans and proceed to blaze our own path

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Artificial Intelligence: Principles To Protect Workers

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AI shouldn’t repeat the mistakes of the past, where periods of globalization, such as NAFTA and automation prioritized short-term gains for companies and investors, and left working families and their communities to bear the cost.

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Weathering Backlash With Care Infrastructure

Briana M. Bivens In These Times
Photo of four children on top of a bed looking at the camera. The Highlander Nursery School’s free socialist early childhood education helped sustain the Southern labor movement. Here’s what we can learn.

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South Park Dismantles MAGA Christians

This "Twisted Christian" episode is a funny, yet thought provoking take down of MAGA's right-wing hyper-nationalist bastardization of Christianity. Spoilers.

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Orwell 2+2=5 | Documentary Movie

This movie mixes the story of George Orwell, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, authoritarian future, with the frightening reality of the 21st century

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The Ballad of the Portland Frog Brigade

What happens when a giant frog, a chicken, a bear, and a unicorn take to the rainy streets of Portland? The true-to-life tale of the Portland Frog Protester.