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Donald Trump bets on arms sales big time. His use of Pentagon spending and military assistance for political gain has been hiding in plain sight since he entered the Oval Office. New budget sees this as a potential key to victory in November.

Bernie Sanders’s victory in the New Hampshire primary marks a turning point for Democratic politics. “No candidate so firmly planted on the left has been so well positioned to capture the nomination of the Democratic Party,”

How Sinn Féin won young voters - and Eastern Europe, Algeria, Lebanon, and El Salvador

A modern manifesto to expand the non‑capitalist space bit by bit.

The U.S. embargo, unsupported by any country in the world, harms the nation’s ordinary working people.

"Anytime the word 'they' is used with workers, it's a sign of union-busters at work. The only pronoun that represents unionism and builds power is we/us."

The real, inflation-adjusted data show most U.S. workers have not benefited from the growing economy.

Federal aid is unlikely to come from an administration hell-bent on criminalizing the homeless and encouraging police agencies to arrest them for minor offenses.

Censorship, disinformation, hysteria and more

There remains this pervasive assumption that the past was overwhelmingly white and male, and this blanket judgment gives filmmakers and Hollywood too-easy a pass.