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To portray Ronald Reagan as a friend of the working class is not only fallacious—it is dangerous.

While sexual harassment is certainly an issue, we need to look deeper at gender bias. Women who do make it to the upper ranks have often been told that they were only given that job or that award because they are women, implying that the field is admitting less-deserving women simply to increase their numbers. In fact, these studies show that many of the women in science must be more capable than the men, to even have advanced in the field. And who wants to admit that?

Historian Nancy MacLean, author of the best-selling "Democracy in Chains," argues that privatizing public education is a dream of the radical right dating back to the segregationist South.

The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.

Understanding the forces deforming our cities today requires more than a class analysis of capitalist land speculation. We have to talk about race.

Pushing Back and Pushing Forward in the First Six Months of the Trump Era.

Why was this Chicago-based group defunded by the Countering Violent Extremism task force?

Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig the economy

The United States is in the process of building a vast nuclear arsenal that appears to be aimed at having the ability to fight and win nuclear wars. The fact that the concept of fighting and winning a nuclear war is completely divorced from the realities of nuclear weapons effects has not deterred the United States from moving forward as if such an objective is possible.

There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye. History has shown there is no military solution to either conflict, yet the Trump Administration has chosen bluster over diplomacy. The current US/South Korea military exercises, “a nuclear war game for the first time,” and more bombs for Afghanistan are just more steps along the path of endless war.