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Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corporate capitalist rule obfuscated by the language of human rights.

Novice school board members get a hard lesson in politics in a region that could determine control of the House.

Historian Robin D. G. Kelley has uncovered a tradition of African American radicalism that was — and is — a crucial part of the American left’s history. He talks to Jacobin about the need to connect struggles against racism and class oppression.

A biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

As the court concludes another term that upended lives, conservative justices are attracting criticism for their rulings and their behavior away from the bench

Staggered 18-year terms would bring regular turnover to the bench. The result would be a Court that better reflects prevailing public values.

California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.

The dystopian drama spins class warfare into gold.

Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. It’s now making a disturbing comeback: lawmakers across the US are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that prohibit employing children.

Affirmative action is now a policy of the past. Something far more powerful than affirmative action is still needed. The vision of Randolph, Rustin and King offers a clue towards a solutions.