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As schools prepare to open, in addition to safety measures, some unions are pressing for police-free schools, canceling rents and mortgages, and bans on new charter programs and standardized testing.

Medicare for All has won the battle of ideas. Now we have to win the battle against entrenched economic and political power.

The need for safe, accessible, regular neighborhood childcare — already taken for granted in many European cities — is a COVID-19 lesson that American women who vote can and should demand.

Shirley Chisholm and other Black women have set their eyes on the Oval Office for 50 years. Now it’s within reach.

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30

QAnon has grown from an internet joke to a national political threat - and fuels emerging fascism on the march behind Trump

Movies about class and inequality have made it into the global mainstream recently and are picking up major prizes. The genre-busting, edge-of-your-seat Brazilian film Bacurau is the latest. You've gotta see it.

The BBC show seems to have difficulty fitting female characters into its universe. But it isn’t Arthur Conan Doyle’s fault.

A must-see film about using math to overcome adversity and send humans into orbit

After the election, many on the Black Left are once again grappling with the “race vs. class” debate.