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Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More (1965), 40 Acres and a Mule Was Working Fine (1865), ‘Your Heritage Is My Slavery’ (2000)

The incoming president and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM.

In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92.

For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American imperialism.

What can medical workers do to stop genocide?

When you ignore context, public health suffers.

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists

The spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago is still in our in our culture, in our hearts and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s something that’s so restorative, so confirmational. No, we're not gone.

Sewa demonstrates how crucial it is that all co-op members – whether professionals or grassroots workers – share the values that the federation represents, and think not just of personal benefits but benefits for the collective and all its members.