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Mike Pompeo rolls back decades of policy and disregards international law in bombshell statement

Any presidential candidate who claims to represent workers and marginalized communities, who even nominally opposes U.S. imperialism, should be able to identify a coup as such.

Jacobin talks to Fidel Narvaez, the ousted Ecuadorian diplomat who handled Julian Assange’s case about why Lenín Moreno caved to international pressure, broke his promises, and gave Assange up to British authorities.

Why are banks no longer lending to each other? Are they afraid that collapse is imminent somewhere in the system, as with the Lehman collapse in 2008?

The School of the Americas/WHINSEC in Fort Benning, Georgia, has become notorious for training and enabling torturers, dictators, and massacres throughout the Western Hemisphere...The school is still training...ICE and the Border Patrol.

Policymakers should reconsider how the tax code treats the most well-off. Here is a closer look.

But the Kurds have never stopped resisting.

A Forgotten Chapter in the Working-Class Fight for Democratic Rights

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why.