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A new book shows how aggressive policing tactics exasperates structural racism and leads to more violence against marginalized communities.

NACLA's editors introduce the latest print issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas - Currency of Death: Unraveling the Political Economy of the Drug Wars.

Climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated

Lobbyists for America’s grandest fortunes may want to raise their rates. Capitol Hill is getting a gadfly who can really sting.

A system based on the fair distribution of use values, decent work, and production and consumption levels that remain within nature’s biophysical limits cannot occur without the abandonment of a social order based on profit and accumulation.

In Brooklyn, a new study shows that women face an underground labor market fraught with hidden risks.

Defining a social justice agenda primarily in reaction to Clinton (oppose her, back her), or Trump (fight him, ignore him), allows the dominant two-party system to set the tone, reduces independent politics to slogans without substance. Failure to look at the whole political environment rather than any one aspect of it, has led to lost opportunities in the past.

The children’s series inspired its young audience to appreciate the mysteries and power of language.

Activists are calling for an end to charter schools and juvenile detention centers.

Some people think the Court is the most important issue, but maybe it is not.