"This book is needed," writes reviewer LeBlanc. "Instead of sharing hard-and-fast edicts, the kind desired by those with a fundamentalist frame of mind, Park advocates for courage and conversation."
The latest installment of the 28 Days Later franchise returns with more than zombies — it explores the strange new norms that follow collapse. It’s a vision of survival horror that focuses not just on the infected but on the ways humanity adapts.
The U.S. government encouraged producers to produce cheese and the USDA began stockpiling the surplus. Some of the same companies that benefited from USDA dairy surplus purchases now rent space in the very caverns once used to house that surplus.
And that’s the other tenth of the show—a clear-eyed portrayal of the evils of imperialism and the colonialism that empowered it.
In "Jerusalem," William Blake vowed to fight the 'dark Satanic Mills' of early capitalism. Answering Blake, poet Mary Mackey recognizes contemporary capitalism's failures, but vows to embrace what's still good in life, not just belabor what's awful.
A librarian tells her story of being on the front lines of the far right wing assault on libraries and knowledge.
Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet another attempt to update the Jane Austen formula, but without the poignancy and beauty of Song’s acclaimed Past Lives.
Labor
AFSCME District Council 33, which represents thousands of city workers, including trash collectors and police dispatchers, is walking off the job after negotiations didn't end in a deal. The union last went on a strike in 1986.
In order to be effective, abundance policy must benefit and build power for working- and middle-class Americans—rather than enriching and empowering concentrated economic interests and generating populist backlash that undermines democracy.
Almost a century ago, labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike, facing down bosses, police, and the Klan. Today amid renewed nativist hate, we can learn from her example.
Under Siege, and Showing its Age
Most of the city unions endorsed the former governor, but a few believed in Mamdani. “It means that for the first time our members will really have a mayor who supports workers,” said Brandon Mancilla, Director of UAW Region 9A.
Unions’ reluctance to engage with workers’ social identities—such as race, ethnicity, and faith—has hindered efforts to build a strong, multiracial labor movement.
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won a stunning victory in New York City's mayoral primary, beating disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo
In comedian George Carlin's Emmy-nominated last stand-up special, he dissects American pride and the co-optation of God
Following Justice Sotomayor’s “direction,” public interest groups litigating to protect Birthright Citizenship filed a new class action suit just hours after the Supreme Court ruled against them
A victory speech that matched the optimistic, generous, working-class-focused campaign that led to victory
Woody Guthrie hated "Old Man Trump." The story of Woody's fight against the racist housing practices of Guthrie’s landlord, Donald's father, with full lyrics and a play along,
To fight oligarchy we need a real reckoning with America's biggest law firms
In his 1968 hit song Everyday People, recorded with his band Sly and The Family Stone, Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) confronted a world beset by chaos, war and hatred with a message of profound brotherhood and compassion
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