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After she and her husband, a fellow writer, saw work in Hollywood dry up during the Red Scare, they continued their careers in self-exile overseas.

I was arrested for a video I published on YouTube, including a joke about the Crimean bridge. It was probably a poor joke, but hardly sufficient grounds for arrest. Unfortunately, Leviathan has no sense of humor. I spent four months in a prison cell.

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For decades, Boeing chose shareholders and executives over workers and production quality — to the tune of $69 billion.

If our aim is economic and social justice, we’d do better to focus on changing the rules—including the rules of the Democratic Party. Even more important than the candidates we elect are the rules that determine whether real change is possible.

Trump lawyers assert, in court, that as president he would have the right to assassinate political opponents. The GOP is flat-out embracing insurrectionists. Here is how we – Portside moderators – assess the danger to democracy. And how you can help.

Israeli officials said their goal is to ensure that Gaza will be an unlivable place once they end their merciless military campaign. Filling those tunnels with polluted water will ensure remaining residential buildings will suffer structural problems

With the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza now before the International Court of Justice, the Biden administration has struck a tone of glib dismissal. The administration’s posture of indifference strains credulity.

After decades, a progressive president in Guatemala