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Chinese Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.

When Biden’s boosters were confronted with polling that most Americans felt negative about the economy, their response was to point to aggregate data. Yet, no one lives in the aggregate. You remember the day the sheriff puts you out of your home.

This book chronicles the World War II-Cold War-era program that encouraged private pen pal correspondence between women in the USA and the Soviet Union, an initiative that fell victim to the rancorous politics of the era.

Roughly 2 million civilians work for the federal government. All over the country, they protect national security and public health. They ensure food is safe and veterans are cared for. They fear for their jobs under Trump.

Changes would likely make it more difficult for workers to form unions and negotiate workplace improvements, but the labor movement may withstand those headwinds since many of the factors that have driven its growth remain in place, experts said.

McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.

New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.

Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

Resist Corporate Agenda, Fight for Real Solutions

Contemporary use of the term AI mystifies the technology. This effect is not accidental. It serves the interests of capital.