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Making sense of the new hell

"The United States government is currently in violation of the law, and every member of the U.S. Senate who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In assessing Donald Trump’s victory, pundits have claimed the country turned right, the Harris campaign was too far left and woke, Biden’s presidency was robustly populist, and racism and sexism made the result inevitable. Those claims are all wrong.

Few singer-songwriters have such fun getting under listeners’ skin.

More present than ever in this year’s presidential campaigns, billionaires seem poised to play a more direct role in the U.S. government. Is this reminiscent of post-Soviet restructuring in the heart of imperialism?

The rule would have required employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week.

In the early nineteenth century, the idea of species extinction was an alien concept. That changed after an expedition to Iceland in search of the last of the great auks.

Trujillo is a hard-line supporter of lethal economic sanctions against Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela. He reportedly played a key role in providing the pretext for the 2019 coup d’etat in Bolivia and supported antidemocratic leaders in other countries.

Donald Trump, our President-elect, is the head teacher of the Führerprinzip, the ‘Leader Principle.’ We only get to have one of them, nor do we need any more. ‘The Leader’ is all-knowing and infallible.

Donald Trump will do his best to undermine unions. But the labor movement still has momentum on its side and numerous opportunities to seize. Trump’s presidency has to be a time for labor action, not despair.