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It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must.

Immigration activists prepare

In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.

Veterans For Peace is calling on US Senators to vote NO on Pete Hegseth for US Defense Secretary, should President-elect nominate him.

The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of genocide has attracted global attention. But in Israel, he faces a trial for corruption to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that could mean the end of his political career.

An edited and expanded version of remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. offered at “A Strategy for Labor, A CUNY Panel Discussion of Honor of Merle Ratner,” December 12, 2024

Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza.

“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated a number of plans targeting federal workers, including plans to end telework.

In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.

Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.