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Imagine NBA Stars -- outside giant sports arenas used as public polling and voting locations -- acting as poll watchers insuring that urban voters, Black and brown folks, file in unsuppressed by armed Para fascists.

Last week’s actions by professional athletes in the NBA, WNBA, NFL, MLB, and professional tennis are a call to action for all of the labor movement.

The time for political games, half-measures, and brinkmanship has long passed. Without significant and sustained congressional action, 30 million to 40 million renters are at risk of being evicted by the end of the year.

Vietnam dare to win, dare to beat the Corona Virus!

The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.

What we know so far about health insurance losses and what it means for policy

The commander of Bolivia’s armed forces General Williams Kaliman—trained by the U.S. military—“suggested” that Morales resign. Morales offered a re-election. It was rejected in place of a coup. There has been no election in Bolivia since the coup.

A pair of leftist historians has undertaken compiling a six-volume collection of Eugene Debs’s writings and speeches. We spoke with one who detailed Debs’s journey from moderate young trade union leader to courageous socialist militant.

At one time this magazine tangled with the FBI, the Atomic Energy Commission and Joseph McCarthy

In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the COVID-19 crisis in its New American community.