Universities Didn’t Fail, They Succeeded

Universities need to recognize that they are being targeted because of what they represent, not because of what they’ve failed to do, and resist accordingly.

What Happens Now in Gaza?

It took an American president unbound by traditional domestic constraints to get this done and provide the parties with what they could accept

Still No Kings: Millions To Protest Trump on Saturday

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet

The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

Media Bits and Bytes — October 14, 2025

Free press showdown

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All

The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US

MIT Says ‘No’ to Trump Extortion Pact

"This offer looked like an invitation, but it wasn't," said Ariel White, vice president of MIT's American Association of University Professors chapter. "It was a ransom note."

This Week in People’s History, Oct 15–21, 2025

Charlie Chaplin impersonating Adolf Hitler
Chaplin’s Timeless Attack on Dictatorship (1940), U.S. Anti-War Rally Was Record-Big, but Not for Long (1965), Revolutionary Stirrings in Manhattan (1765), Permission to Come Aboard, Who Needs It? (1960), Is the C.I.A. Is a Law Unto Itself? (1975)

Injury to Buildings and Vegetables

Pigou noted the problem that Marx had only glancingly acknowledged: that the production of commodities was often accompanied by unintentional and sometimes severe physical side effects.

Their Families Fled Socialism, Now They Support Mamdani

A world away from their parents’ Iron Curtain upbringings, young New Yorkers with roots from Poland to Turkmenistan are helping power the Democratic mayoral nominee’s sunny socialist campaign.
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Culture

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Proprietary

Randall Mann
Drawing on his experience in the technology sector, poet Randall Mann discloses how much he can't disclose.

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Go See One Battle After Another Right Now

Eileen Jones
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians.

Labor

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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind

Paul Prescod Jacobin
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.

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We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement

Jenny Brown Jacobin
UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

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Unleashing Retirement Scammers

Bryce Covert In These Times
The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients’ expense.

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Work Therapy or Wage Theft?

Amy L. Eisenstein On Labor
If Salvation Army residential work employees earned at least a minimum wage and overtime pay, program participants would be properly compensated for their labor rather than exploited, overworked, and underpaid.

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