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Understanding the forces deforming our cities today requires more than a class analysis of capitalist land speculation. We have to talk about race.

The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.

Historian Nancy MacLean, author of the best-selling "Democracy in Chains," argues that privatizing public education is a dream of the radical right dating back to the segregationist South.

While sexual harassment is certainly an issue, we need to look deeper at gender bias. Women who do make it to the upper ranks have often been told that they were only given that job or that award because they are women, implying that the field is admitting less-deserving women simply to increase their numbers. In fact, these studies show that many of the women in science must be more capable than the men, to even have advanced in the field. And who wants to admit that?

To portray Ronald Reagan as a friend of the working class is not only fallacious—it is dangerous.

"You would think that activists would just be exhausted and giving up, but not only are they getting louder, they're banding together and making their voices heard at every turn."

The United States is in the process of building a vast nuclear arsenal that appears to be aimed at having the ability to fight and win nuclear wars. The fact that the concept of fighting and winning a nuclear war is completely divorced from the realities of nuclear weapons effects has not deterred the United States from moving forward as if such an objective is possible.

Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig the economy

Why was this Chicago-based group defunded by the Countering Violent Extremism task force?

IUPAT has launched a national “Free Hugo” campaign, calling on ICE to release one of thei rmembers from detention so he can be with his family while his asylum petition is heard.