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As Cop Cities spread to nearly every state, grassroots activists are pushing back by forming coalitions that press for investment in communities over militarized policing.

Reporter Alice Driver’s new book “The Life and Death of the American Worker” is an accounting of the lives and working conditions faced by poultry and meatpacking workers in Arkansas, where Tyson Foods is headquartered.

The protests were called by the center-left coalition New Popular Front (NFP) in more than 150 cities across France.

Rightwing libertarians around the world are attempting to erode and virtually erase governmental measures that protect both people and the environment from corporate misconduct and unrestrained capitalism.

The political professionals remaining in the GOP insist that mail-in voting is part of their get-out-the-vote program even as Trump vilifies mail-in voting. To defeat Trump, pro-democracy voters need to actually get out the early and mail-in vote.

I Hate to See the Evenin' Sun Go Down (1914), Take National Defense Day and Shove It! (1924), Apartheid on the Skids (1989), Death of an Organizer (1929), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (1964), Big Win for Solidarity (1889), Moses of Her People (1849)

After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.

Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.

China is now Africa’s largest trading partner, with partnerships focused on building roads, railways and energy projects.

The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine and opens a path to forcing a change in US policy.