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Corporate malfeasance saps the African continent of billions in badly needed funds each year — and the U.S. is a top destination.

This program meets the needs of—and has the potential to unite—the labor movement, environmentalists, and all those who have been the victims of inequality, discrimination, racism and, now, climate change.

A new book by John Patrick Leary, Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism, argues that words like “innovation” are doing more than telling you who to avoid at parties.

Tribalism Hype; Classes, Not Tribes; Can't Tailor the Vests; Whitney's Woes; Transatlantic Trickery; Conservative: We Lost the Culture Wars

We'd like to say that everyone can breathe easier after the midterm elections, which delivered an emphatic judgment on Trump and Trumpism. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this achievement in any way.

The poignant drama, “Capernaum,” follows a boy who runs away and winds up roaming the slums of Beirut shouldering a distressing responsibility. At its premiere at Cannes in May, the film received a 15-minute standing ovation.

Some public sector unions fear that if single payer was enacted in New York insurance options for their members would be reduced and that the lure of joining unions could be curtailed if members no longer had the advantage of generous health plans.

In this piece, I want to discuss the political climate and experience of revolutionaries of the 1960s to better understand today’s political landscape and what I think could be some useful directions forward for the battles we are engaged in now.

The resolution says funding will primarily come from the federal government, “using a combination of the Federal Reserve, a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks, public venture funds..."

Protesting wartime food shortages, thousands of women in 1917 protested with food riots and boycotts.