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For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists—and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

A strategic focus on uniting the working class doesn’t mean marginalizing the struggle against racism and sexism.

Support is growing for a referendum on whether to ban large landlords from the German capital and turn their property into social housing stock.

Smaller-scale efforts show local governments are prepared to act on climate change

"We can't sit around for 100 years while the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful and everyone else falls further and further behind."

Giving researchers and companies freedom to explore, in order to seek positive achievements from AI systems, means opening up the risk of developing more advanced ways to create deception and other social problems

Trevor Noah Interviews Bernie Sanders. Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach. You Won’t Believe What Obama Says in This Video! Faces Places | Movie. Attorney General Barr Is Caught in a Double Mueller Bind.

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With the hard right running left and the center-left abdicating, Euroskeptics could accelerate a continent-wide crisis. Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines, river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates.

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation. We should prioritize the fight for a 180-degree turnaround in the U.S. stance toward China - that diplomacy and negotiation replace trade wars and military encirclement.