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Jesse Armstrong continues being one of the best at making ice-cold comedy from an "eat the rich" mindset.

Public and private media under fire

Whether it is purging half of the staff at the U.S. Department of Education or telling teachers to stop teaching the hard parts of our history, the Trump administration is trying to unravel public education.

Doug Wilson has built a theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the GOP.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, Ukraine’s left-wing community is continuing its work fighting both neoliberalism and Russian aggression.

Frederick Douglass’s Unusual Book Tour (1845), Andrew Johnson Goes His Own Way (1865), Fight the Power (1975), The ACLU Takes a Stand (1970)

Economic concerns are starting to affect consumer spending, from snack consumption to travel plans.

We need to change the focus - to focus on public health, public education, the end of precarious work, the green shift in the economy and of course to work for peace. If the women’s movement today does not have a position on this, it is not relevant.

Genocide Convention: Article 2(c) prohibits ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’.

Studies of exotic materials called “strange metals” point to a whole new way to understand electricity