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What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding.

“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.

The process of examining recipes and cooking instills concepts more deeply than traditional modes of assessment; learning about Jewish women just by reading texts would be particularly ahistorical.

Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears witness to workers’ suffering as if it were immutable.

California poet Lee Rossi knows what’s wrong with America—but who will listen?

A radical communion of painting and writing, Art on the Frontline reckons with the leftist political potential of Black visual and expressive culture.

A new bill aims to help the state’s independent farmers by first labeling who they are.

The conformity of 1950s film and television was the result of the successful McCarthyist purge of leftists — and their genres — from the entertainment industry. The life of socialist screenwriter Very Caspary shows how it was done and what was lost.

The so-called “arc of history,” says poet Kenneth Pobo, does not “bend toward justice,” and he tells us why!