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Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on two two big cases this month, anti-gerrymandering action at the state level is well underway

If Democrats really want to develop an economic message that is supposed to help all people, especially the most vulnerable in America, they need to start with the stark inequalities that are right in front of their noses.

A Washington DC multimedia extravaganza celebrated the concept of a Dictionary of Marx, highlighting twelve words central to Marx’s lexicon and subsequent movements that look to Marx

As the moguls of the National Football League coerce the athletes to abandon their protests against racism, Kathy Engel’s poem reminds us of the larger stakes for us all.

World peace, “the most important topic on earth….not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women – not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.” That was 1963, the president was was John F. Kennedy. Contrast to today and the desire for ever greater stockpiles of nuclear bombs.

We may never know the name of the soldier who killed Razan al-Najjar. But we do know the names of those who gave the order enabling him to kill her. We know Razan, with her head wrapped in scarves of different colors, showing an investment of time and thought. The color reveals a love for life.

Free-market orthodoxy has failed. It’s time to consider our public interest. Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans buy more American goods and services than anyone else in the world. So why would the Trump administration be willing to start trade wars?