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Jonathan Katz on Smedley Butler and American Empire

In 1969, a rogue attorney for the National Labor Relations Board undermined a critical piece of labor law. Fifty years later, the Biden administration is trying to reverse the damage caused by that decision.

Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants/CWA and APWU President Mark Dimondstein

Although it faces significant obstacles, the French left is stronger today than it was after the 2017 presidential election

The battle between J Street and AIPAC to influence the Democratic Party is also opening space for Palestine solidarity to enter the mainstream.

Low turnout, a deeply warped media narrative, and right-wing billionaire money framed a very conservative outcome. That's the real story.

Chairman Bennie Thompson's Opening Statement at Jan. 6 Hearing. Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Hearing Presentation. Filmmaker Nick Quested Recalls Documenting Jan. 6 Attack. The Janes | Trailer. Insurrectionists Experience Consequences As Jan. 6th Hearings Begin.

Piketty’s new book, “A Brief History of Equality,” is perhaps his most optimistic work. Piketty proposes a truly radical policy agenda — a universal minimum inheritance, worker control over the boards of corporations and “confiscatory” levels of wealth and income taxation — that he calls “participatory socialism.”

An explosive first hearing promised a string of revelations that could match the last time Congress checked a presidential threat to democracy.

Using the Cline Center’s Coup D’état Project definitions, we classify the storming of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 as an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election.