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Up until the 1500s, brewing was primarily women’s work – that is, until a smear campaign accused women brewers of being witches.

One of the country’s leading progressive political strategists and visionaries, Cobble never stopped believing that ‘a better world is possible.’

One of FDR’s most successful New Deal programs electrified rural America thru federally funded community cooperatives. Now many are like fiefdoms, tied to costly, polluting coal plants, while their members demand transparency and renewable energy.

Rather than asking whether or not Judas & the Black Messiah fulfilled our desire for what a film about Fred Hampton should look like, we should begin with another sort of question: What can we do to make the most of this opportunity?

Black feminists developed an analysis of power, which shows oppression is rooted in and exacerbated by many systems. Intersectionality acknowledges that power is dispersive and comes from many sources.

Noted British labor economist Guy Standing says the mainstream left, left populists and social democrats, should not be distracted by populism. Instead it should focus on new answers in an era defined by chronic insecurity and growing inequality.

Massachusetts spent 20 years refining its own mass vaccination plan. Then it looked elsewhere.

Because no Republicans were expected to vote for the bill, Schumer needed every senator in his 50-member caucus to support the legislation in order to push it through the Senate.

California poet Patrick Daly writes in the wake of January 6, 2021 about “that other House” endangered by a mob or by “An angry man/red and orange like a flame?”

The death of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has evoked examinations of his legacy. One can praise the good things but its important to address the bad things so we can have a more accurate understanding of his time.