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Ordered to remove unsuitable books from their libraries, school administrators in Iowa outsourced the job to AI. So long, The Color Purple, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale …

In 1997, Barbara Ehrenreich went after the human attraction to violence in her book Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Now, in an updated, adapted version of an afterword, she turns from the origins of war to its endpoint.

Two diametrically opposed groups of people, operating under two totally different definitions of “the enemy,” cannot unite in any meaningful sense.

"First Amendment, what's that?" in 1918. GIs sit-in, go to jail in 1968. An invasion is an invasion in 1968. KKK run out of town in 1923. Lead paint deadly in 1983 (and it still is). Trying to outlaw war in 1928. March on Washington in 1963.

Florida would have students believe that enslaved Black people “benefited” by developing skills during slavery; the reality is that enslaved Africans contributed to the nation’s social, cultural and economic well-being using skills they had already.

"September" met with mathematician and Russian left-wing politician Mikhail Lobanov to discuss his foreign agent status, his dismissal from Moscow State University and potential approaches to anti-war political organizing in Russia.

The struggle now is the one that punctuates all moments of crisis: the forces of disaster capitalism versus the people attempting to build a paradise out of hell.

One of the biggest changes in state politics in years, explained.

UAW president Shawn Fain has called for a 32-hour workweek. It’s the revival of an old vision in the US labor movement — and the sort of ambition overworked and underpaid employees need.

Unlike many classic works of sci-fi, Star Trek offered an optimistic vision of humanity’s future — one where democracy triumphs, exploitation is ended, and everyone’s material needs are met.