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Ever since COVID-19 collided with the enormous bubble governments have been using to re-float the financial sector since 2008, booming equity markets became compatible with wholesale economic implosion. That became clear on August 12

Like the 1930s, nowhere are the political and economic failures of modern-day American capitalism greater than in the U.S. South, where a monolith of Republican governors and legislatures are completely incapable of dealing with the Covid 19 crisis.

Even as the energy of the last week is being steered in a safer direction and away from labor militancy, we still don’t know how this story is going to end.

Boseman was a superhero on screen, but his work defending the dignity of Black people’s image on screen was his best. In 2003, after he questioned a soap opera’s stereotypical depiction of a Black teen, he was fired.

The violent right’s influence in intelligence, police, conservatism - and how to fight it

The U.S. media got the historic election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador all wrong. The winner by a landslide was Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a socialist reformer and unabashed champion of the working class. It’s a hugely significant turn of events.

Kinnucan, Brooklyn DSAer tells about building the ground campaign, the need for socialist campaigns and coalition electoral efforts. Yee, Democratic State Committeeman analyzes the district, the candidate. Svart says, DSA is just getting started.

Welcoming Central American refugees is the smart thing to do. In time they will contribute much to our society. It’s the right thing to do. It gives us a chance to reckon with the history that brought them here and begin to take responsibility for it

Jason Isbell, one of the most critically lauded singers and songwriters of the new millennium, raised questions about his own life experience, about the privileges he’s enjoyed, where those privileges came from and who paid what price to create them.

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