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The right-wing vendetta against the Postal Service long predates the pandemic, but gutting it now has the potential to undermine the integrity of the November election. Yet establishment media seem remarkably uninterested in connecting the dots.

“We cannot take any of their threats lightly,” said senior Venezuelan politician Diosdado Cabello. “What happened today,” he said, “is an example of the desperation” of the United States and its allies.

Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism.

States must create health and safety councils—one way that ‘essential’ workers can begin to gain one essential they lack: power.

'The Assistant': Julia Garner excels as a junior assistant to a predatory media mogul boss in Kitty Green’s powerfully understated #MeToo drama.

Why Press Freedom Day? Is encrypted messaging the future of social media? And more media news

After working together on the Sanders campaign, the United Electrical Workers union and the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, channeling insurgent energy into new fights for social justice.

Instead of increasing public oversight, California has relaxed it, allowing private nursing homes to cut staffing. This is a recipe for disaster.

“Using the time when the world has been busy confronting the COVID-19 pandemic to commit more war crimes is immoral and poses new challenges for the rule of law and human rights.”

It’s the new normal: armed fascists intimidate elected officials who oppose the President as Republicans either stay silent or – like Trump himself – egg them on.