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October 7, 2022

The Closing Gender, Education, and Ideological Divides Behind Gen Z’s Union Movement

Aurelia Glass Center for American Progress

Smiling, shouting heads of workers celebrating.

Unions have narrowed class and ideological divides to make Generation Z America's most pro-union generation.

October 7, 2022

In Ukraine

Beau Beausoleil

For all the news about the invasion of Ukraine, US observers scarcely know the price of war, but as San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil writes, that won’t last forever.

September 1, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | September 1, 2017

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IRS Criminal Unit Aiding Mueller Investigation. Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King | Texas Flood. Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI. Nurse Dragged From Hospital By Police. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Daily Show.

IRS Criminal Unit Aiding Mueller Investigation

September 1, 2017

The investigation by the IRS's elite criminal unit could put Trump through the most intense audit of his life.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King | Texas Flood

September 1, 2017

Live at SS Presidente, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1988.

Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI

September 1, 2017

If artificially intelligent machines become smarter than humans, who will set the goals they seek to achieve?

Nurse Dragged From Hospital By Police

September 1, 2017

A Salt Lake City nurse is violently detained by police for refusing an illegal order to turn over a patient's blood without his consent.

September 1, 2017

Is Spain About to Break Up?

Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus

Spain's Catalonia region votes on independence this fall. For some, it's a referendum on austerity policies that have crippled economies all over Europe.

September 1, 2017

How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History

Laurie Marhoefer The Conversation

We have an ethical obligation to stand against the fascists and racists in a way that doesn’t help them.

September 1, 2017

Social Democracy Is Good. But Not Good Enough.

Joseph M. Schwartz and Bhaskar Sunkara Jacobin

We need a socialism that goes beyond capitalism. And not just for moral reasons.