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The HALT Act was passed to end long-term solitary confinement. Enforcing it is a whole new struggle.

The Court has spent the last several years claiming the other two branches’ powers for itself.

The first film to fully explore the 1937 tragedy in Chicago, when police shot and killed ten pro-labor marchers--and the shocking film cover-up that followed.

Sudan is in yet another civil war. Can it put military rule behind it once and for all?

Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon

If we are serious about saving democracy, care and the planet we need to address the root of the crisis, which is capital’s insatiable need to devour them.

If our state lawmakers really wanted to help fight crime, they would invest more tax dollars into mental health and anti-poverty programs to better support all of our communities, not finding new ways to oppress and overpower the Black residents of this state.

In their justified concern for inequalities of power, the woke often simply focus on power struggles rather than thinking about justice, which sometimes gets left by the wayside. If all you see in history is attempted progress that failed, you’ll find it hard to struggle towards progress in the future.

Michael A. Lebowitz was Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University in Canada and the author of many books on marxism.

The government’s least democratic branches are incompetent and corrupt because they are unaccountable. James Madison would not be surprised…