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Just as the Lost Cause denied the brutal racism of slavery in order to perpetuate violent inequity through other means, at the heart of the Big Lie is also a drive to protect a racist order

Ukrainian campaigners call for immediate end to investments, to cut funds to war and help avoid climate breakdown

Irish pro-choice activists had to overcome a rigid constitutional ban on abortion that was in place for more than 30 years. They succeeded by putting mass mobilization and a confident assertion of the right to choose at the heart of their campaign.

Political corruption and the idea that corporations can be people are the cancer at the core of our national crisis.

John W. Dean and Bob Altemeyer's study, writes reviewer Sharpe, offers "considerable insight concerning the question of why the MAGA base shows itself so impervious to reasoned criticism of their hero, and so determined to stand by him."

Several members of the Columbus Education Association were struck by pellets while picketing Tuesday afternoon outside Indian Springs Elementary School in Clintonville.

Strikes, strife, strategies and solidarity

The Fourth Circuit appeals court finds that Republicans “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Driver-owned apps could end Uber’s exploitative reign over the ride-share market.

From Halt and Catch Fire to The Americans, some of "the best television of the moment is mining the fairly recent past in a meaningful way." Critic Meghan Lewit on what nostalgia for the 1980s and '90s might tell us about who we are now.