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By reducing black Americans' concerns to race or exploiting the idea of a singular "black vote," the elite political class undermines our ability to organize a majoritarian social movement to combat the ruling-class assault on all working people.

Resistance by a school community, albeit sometimes fleeting, and devotedness, can change children's education. And what better way could there be of learning democratic resistance than local initiatives adopting a solidarity-based approach?

Bernie Sanders stands alone now, save for his grassroots army, and facing him are the politically elite of the Democratic Party, both black and white, Wall Street, and the corporate media

Colorado poet Jared Smith raises the question of what the American Dream means in the ordinary lifetime of an ordinary person.

Since 2017 Rudy Giuliani has emerged as Trump’s shadow secretary of state with his hands in American foreign policy and politics from Iran to Russia, Turkey to Ukraine and beyond

The near-total lack of interest from markets means there’s precious little foundation for scientists to build on

For those who live in the shadow of segregation and racial terror, the election is not about policy or personality. It’s about something much darker.

Rather than obsess over who Warren will endorse, let’s see Biden and Sanders lift up her ideas and principles

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The authors provide an easy to read analysis of what the authors have identified as signposts for the current realignment of the political forces underway as we head toward 2020 presidential election.