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We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.

The Roy siblings are deeply haunted by their upbringing. Succession keeps finding ways to show that.

Striketober may very well be just a viral hashtag, but the growing worker militancy it invokes is unmistakably in the air

The Biden administration’s violent deportations underline America’s racist treatment of Black migrants.

Unless he holds everyone to the same level of accountability, Biden will end up holding the bag for Tel Aviv’s latest Palestinian crackdown.

“Here we are, a group of Black lesbian feminist anti-imperialist anti-capitalists trying to do the right thing.”

"Our action was in the tradition of resistance that is Pride. We didn’t halt progress; we made progress."

“The Sympathizer,” which is narrated by the unnamed spy, begins with the Communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 and then continues in Southern California among a group of die-hard exiles whose motto is “Always resent, never relent.”

Mother Jones Senior Reporter Shane Bauer has previously reported on solitary confinement, police militarization, and the Middle East. Here he writes about his four months as a private prison guard.

This memoir by physics and geology professor Anatole Dolgoff of his father, IWW activist Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990), beautifully captures the aura of the anarchist and related movements in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century, says reviewer Peter Cole.