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While the global climate crisis demands we rise above narrow self-interest and short-termism, governments now represent the meanest and dirtiest of special interests. In the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia and many other nations, the pollutocrats rule.

The Brexit promoted by Tory hardliners has long been about pulling Britain under the shadow of US capital. US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.

Restoration of a Beloved Species or Biotech Trojan Horse?

Red Summer 0f 1919 — so deemed by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson to capture its sheer bloodiness — is a study in what historian Carol Anderson calls white rage. African Americans fought back, including in numerous incidents of armed self-defense.

Academics debate why American workers are in many ways worse off than their counterparts elsewhere, but there is overriding agreement on one reason: Labor unions are weaker in the United States than in other industrial nations.

Pennebaker created numerous ground-breaking idiosyncratic documentary films including Dont Look Back, about Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour

At its biennial convention last weekend, DSA passed a headline-grabbing resolution declaring that it would not endorse any Democrat save Bernie Sanders in next year’s November presidential runoff.

The Dark Side of the Video Game Industry. Moscow Mitch, The Musical. Trump Impeachment Inquiry to Look at Broad Range of Offenses. Facts Prove White Supremacy Is Not A ‘Hoax’. Why Democratic Socialism Is Gaining Popularity in the United States.

Reader Comments: It's a Racist and White Terrorist Assault; Impeachment Update; Democrats Moving Left; Puerto Rico; Hawaii; Remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki; Hong Kong; China: Africa; Trade Unionists Support Green New Deal; Announcements; and more...

French workers' top electoral choice isn't Marine Le Pen, but abstention. To mobilize their support, the Left needs to look beyond the workplace alone - and answer a deeper mood of alienation.