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The president repudiates the neoliberal ideologies of the past and puts the party on solid economic and political ground.

It's historic because team owners and managers historically discriminated against Black players— especially in so-called "thinking positions" like center, middle linebacker and quarterback.

How U.S. history textbooks and prominent American universities justified slavery, perpetuated racial stereotypes and promoted white supremacy.

This time we have an opportunity to make right a crime committed in the immediate past while all the co-conspirators and perpetrators are still alive

What's missing from economics coverage?

Despite his historic achievements, the public doesn’t think he’s done much at all.

Community wealth building initiatives are taking hold in cities across the world, strengthening worker pay, local economies and democracy.

"People generally tend to consider Google's search engine as an equalizer... but that's just not the case," said one researcher. "Lower-income women are being targeted, and they're the ones that are going to suffer the most."

Between several massive strikes, democratic socialists getting elected to city council, new union organizing campaigns, successful ballot measures to tax the rich, and the ouster of several reactionary political figures, it’s a good time to be a leftist in Los Angeles.

Around the country, corporate utility giants like DTE in Michigan are leaving communities vulnerable while impeding progress on decarbonization—and that’s exactly why a transition to community-owned utilities must happen.