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All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?

“The harsh reality is that, despite the possibility that a rich and powerful man may now be in for his just desserts, our criminal legal system is daily marked by widespread unfairness and a stark racial bias.”

The closure of the border crossing is a living embodiment of Canada’s continued white supremacist and Eurocentric foundations

A record number of inmates are dying in Georgia's five largest county jails, and that Fulton County Jail has led the state in such deaths since 2009. Overcrowding and understaffing plague the facility, where around half of the more than 3,000 inmates have not been charged with any crime.

Who Profits From War: How Gas Corporations Capitalise on War in Ukraine.

Rather than expansion of the means of production or direction by the state, human beings must be at the centre of the new socialist society.

In the election of 1920, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, polled nearly a million votes without ever hitting the campaign trail. Debs was behind bars in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, serving a 10-year sentence for sedition. It was a not a bum rap. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, the Sedition Act of 1918.

Can it be enough to denounce the evils of the past? I believe it’s not enough if we fail to rise up in protest against the fact that democracy -- in the name of which so many young partisans went to fight, has become marked by inequality and arrogance of the powers-that-be – is unable to make obvious the reasons why it was the bitter enemy of Fascism.

Today is Worker's Memorial Day. Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.

It’s an incentive system that encourages risky, even reckless behavior but, insulated from liability, they face little consequence if those plans fail. This explains why private equity firms often have such sorry consequences for everyone except themselves.