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Puerto Rico’s Left made significant gains in the recent general elections. This vote for decolonization and social change must be appreciated.

For the first time California water futures will be traded on Wall Street. Utility companies and agribusiness will be the main purchasers of these water futures, while vulture capitalists rush to find increasingly scarce water for giant water users.

From William Morris to Ursula K. Le Guin and Iain M. Banks, science fiction has provided an outlet for socialist thinkers – offering a break from a bleak political reality and allowing them to imagine a vastly different world.

If society needs to rapidly invent and deliver a vaccine – a global public good – with taxpayer money, why are U.S. federal agencies relinquishing the government’s ability to share and deploy these inventions and production processes with the world?

What value is a democracy that actively seeks to silence the voices of its most vulnerable citizens?

The resurgence of democratic socialism has occurred during a period of growing activism against widening inequality, persistent racism and looming environmental disaster.

The problem isn’t just that these companies are too big for meaningful competition.

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The National Restaurant Association estimates there are now over 110,000 closures and says the industry badly needs government aid to get through the pandemic.