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“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it today by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

Since United Auto Workers union members struck the Big Three automakers, GOP candidates have confirmed that the party of Eisenhower is now the party of unreconstructed reactionaries.

Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood and publishing.

We’re neutral in any war, not because we don’t believe there is an occupation, but because many of the countries of Latin America have suffered invasions by the same countries that today are extending an invitation to reject the invasion of Ukraine.

September sat down with Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, to discuss the history of neoliberal and libertarian ideas, the war in Ukraine and the state of the left-wing movement

"Netanyahu made clear with his little map today what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine... from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes," one critic said.

Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)

International team of researchers has uncovered the incredible genetic diversity hidden within the ancient remains of those who once called Machu Picchu home.

Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018 amid a shortage of lethal injection drugs, but the state has not attempted to use it until now to carry out a death sentence.

The state’s water crisis hasn’t fully abated, but nobody’s talking about it on the campaign trail.