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Trump says he is a “friend of the working class” – but he’s anything but. Read on to learn why.

Some historians have described the South's convict leasing system as “worse than slavery,” because there was no incentive to avoid working those people to death.

"If we don't fully understand and account for slavery's history in this country, we won't understand how it shaped the political, economic and social infrastructure of this country and the landscape of inequality today."

"This man should not be addressing Congress," said the New York Democrat. "He is a war criminal."

Life in Brooklyn

It could hardly be clearer that the world is already in the throes of a climate catastrophe. That means it’s high time for the U.S. to declare a national climate emergency to help focus us all on the disaster at hand.

Confronting the normalization of political violence and stopping it from undermining the practice of inclusive democracy in the United States requires tapping into the power of communities, to resist violence and make it backfire.

Policymakers can only make sensible decisions when they understand what the tax system’s shortcomings have done to Black communities.

No strike agreements are almost ubiquitous in union contracts these days, according to labor studies professor Jeff Schuhrke at SUNY Empire State.

A new report by a UN commission finds that Israel intended to murder civilians en masse, inflict wide-scale civilian destruction, and collectively punish Palestinians in Gaza — holding them hostage to its political aims.