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There is an old story about Marx: you throw him out the front door and he sneaks back in through the rear window. That is what happened once again.

This piece was originally written for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) in early February 2018 before the appointments of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State and John Bolton as National Security Advisor. These appointments render an already alarming situation even worse.

At a January conference, Minnesota tribal police made it clear they are not waiting for permission from the federal government to move forward in protecting their members. They are not alone.

The institutionalized destruction of Palestinian women’s lives has thus been an essential feature of the Israeli project. In this regard, Israeli settler-colonialism can be seen as intrinsically anti-feminist and a form of gendered violence.

The white-collar rising of 2018 reflects millennial militancy, the death of the Norquist pledge, and one more issue on which Democrats need to move left.

Around 150,000 people took part in the Great March of Return, Ahmad Abu Artema, a commemoration of Palestinians killed by Israel forces during the general strike against the 1976 Israeli annexation of land. This year, Israeli fire killed 16 Palestinians and injured another 1400.

Sinclair's order was in many ways making working conditions intolerable for these anchors. In the United States, when employers make conditions unbearable or unpleasant, there has long been an option that workers can pursue: form a union and seek protections through a union contract.

The March 18 killing of 22-year old Stephon Clark by Sacramento Police once again calls our attention to the racist aspect of the problem of civilians murdered by law enforcement. Angie Thomas's award-winning Young Adult novel is among the most recent literary responses to this crisis.

Obama revived Pell grants for prisoners, but the program faces a cloudy future.

Strikes can improve wages and working conditions, but history shows that more formal channels of negotiation are required to resolve the contradictions between society's reliance on public employees and its failure to value their labor.