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The real purpose of the Quad is not to advance solutions to the great challenges of our time, but to slow China's technological progress

The most noteworthy item suggests Washington may be finally ready to take racial justice in farming seriously.

We need to be prepared for the next pandemic, and we can't be under the current for-profit system.

The mishandling of the pandemic has only strengthened the former president’s standing – and now he’s free to run again

The question is whether even a supportive president can reverse the decline in union power that economists say has helped hollow out America's middle class. Neither organized labor nor sympathetic politicians have managed to do that for decades.

The juxtaposition of cowboys with urban life is a unique spin on neo-westerns, particularly due to the lack of black representation in the genre.

Dean Spade is a trans activist, writer and teacher. Stephanie Luce interviewed him about his recent book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next).

For Chesa Boudin, his mother and father were radical not for their politics but for the extraordinary lengths they took to parent him while incarcerated.

Many social scientific analyses of the global political economy...are race neutral or willfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. If they do address... colonialism, they ignore embedded racial logics of oppression.

The recent meltdown of Texas’s energy grid during a spell of extreme weather made it extremely clear for everyone to see: a for-profit, free-market-oriented energy system is bound to fail massive numbers of people.