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After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change.

Bolton is an old hand at using allegedly damning intelligence on Iran to advance a plan of aggressive U.S. war.

Can the Vermont senator win over Trump voters and harness his grassroots army to transform the Democratic Party?

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unveiled a new endorsement process for the 2020 presidential race, shifting influence from its top brass to state union leaders and the rank and file.

You can't stop empathy, compassion, generosity, and heroism. Even on HBO's notoriously violent and cynical hit series!

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was quick to condemn the move, calling it the “latest scheme by ICE to enlist local police in its abusive deportation agenda.”

Larry understood that the very existence of mass transit depended on those riders who most depended on it, most often Black, Latino and immigrant workers.

Whether we’re fighting for a contract or a law, we should frame every time-related fight as part of the same vision—that workers own our time.

Hobsbawm, perhaps the world’s most renowned historian, saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.

Jury in Boston returns verdict on John Kapoor after 15th day of deliberations.