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Billionaire Sebastián Piñera’s right-wing government is undermining democratic institutions in Chile. Using laws and policies left over from the Pinochet era, the new government has acted swiftly to overturn reforms put in place by Michelle Bachelet's previous government.

Anti-fascist volunteer Canute Frankson explained his motivation in a letter home in 1937: “We will build us a new society—a society of peace and plenty. There will be no color line, no jim-crow trains, no lynching. That is why, my dear, I’m here in Spain.”

Decynthia Clements became one of the many Black women whom police officers were called to assist but ended up killing instead.

The We Have Voice Collective, a new group of female and non-binary musicians in jazz and experimental music, plans to release a Code of Conduct on Tuesday that aims to build upon the conversations sparked by jazz’s own #MeToo movement.

Wolf stalks sheep; Beyond Facebook; Mark Z’s forked tongue; When gossip leads to mass murder; De-privatizing data; Tech vs. finance

Much of the decline in people who are enrolled in TANF since it was reformed has been because they were kicked off, not because they found better jobs. Research has found that in many places, people who didn’t have to deal with work requirements were actually more likely to work than those who did.

A conversation with peace activist Christine Ahn.

We had no other choice but to demonstrate our basic civil liberties in pursuit of real, transformative change — by walking out of our classrooms together and into the Capitol on the historic day of April 26, 2018.

The Origins of May Day

By using dog-whistle terms like welfare, Trump is erecting a smokescreen in the shape of President Reagan’s myth of the “welfare queen”—so we don’t notice that he’s coming after the entire working and middle class.