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Peter Martin's The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language shows Noah Webster as the sort of ideologue who's convinced he has a historical mission and carries himself accordingly, writes Scott McLemee.

Bernie Sanders's Green New Deal proposal includes the United States moving to 100 percent public ownership of our power grid.

In the past, the Greens were happy if they scraped into regional assemblies in eastern Germany. Now the party is luring voters keen to stop the far right.

To a steady beat of whistles, car horns and “AB5 and a union!” hundreds of rideshare drivers amassed outside Uber’s corporate headquarters in San Fransisco on Wednesday.

This new book, says reviewer Rosen, carefully studies the life of the multiracial working class in a U.S. town, and, in the process, "painfully reveals that traditional working-class life is over."

Saving the Amazon, Global Climate Strike, Corbyn vs Boris, Women in Sudan, Papua Protests, Kashmir Solidarity, Russia Stirs, Luciana Castellina, Two Views on Hong Kong

Millennials are already in debt and without savings. After the next downturn, they’ll be in even bigger trouble.

The ongoing destruction of the Amazon is taking place because of policy choices made by those who now rule Brazil

The recent trailer for Bombshell offers the second direct, on-screen depiction of a major #MeToo-era sexual harassment scandal— and it’s the first thata promises to do it well.

The Portland Timbers soccer fans defied Major League Soccer, team ownership, and fascism in one glorious night.