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What this book reveals, writes reviewer Leonard, "is a country that has been falling apart for quite some time, and a company that has been willing and able to turn a failure of public policy into private power."

Nikole Hannah-Jones declines tenure offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University.

Afghan women arm, a new pink tide in Latin America, Canadians demand a reckoning, and more

Calls for president’s impeachment grow amid claims government sought to profit from Covid jabs

The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering.

A growing segment of the general population now recognizes the threat of “Amazon capitalism”: what scholars describe as reflecting “the larger global trend of the increasing influence of finance capitalism, neoliberal politics and corporate power."

Using kitchen table economics is critical for winning workers over to Medicare for All. Working out how much they are paying for health insurance for themselves, makes it clear how much they would save with Medicare for All.

Another day, another 20 scandals

The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

In the coming years, Amazon will most likely become the largest private employer in the United States — perhaps even the world. It already employs nearly a million U.S. workers and indirectly commands many more thousands of contracted drivers.