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About 4000 people will be attending this years Labor Notes conference.

In the “war on immigration” waged by European states the victims of criminalization are often the migrants themselves, Why are the same actions taken for Ukrainians, considered criminal when they occur in the Mediterranean?

The primary problem in a deeply unequal democracy will never be the influence we allow the wealthy to bring to bear on our politics. The primary problem remains concentrated wealth itself, the huge gap between the wealthy and everyone else.

The battle for digital sovereignty, based on a concept of sovereignty that rests with citizens, involves recovering the internet as a network of peers and reversing the oligopolistic trajectory that has produced a handful of billionaires.

A Simple Solution: Reduce the Number of Guns. Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana. Jacinda Ardern at Harvard: Gun Control and Democracy. How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting an Abortion. The Hidden History of “Hand Talk.”

It's not school security or mental illness or anything else—it’s just all the guns.

The ubiquity and perils of imperial nostalgia, especially as empires decline, highlight the need to create an international security system to replace today’s international anarchy. 

Law professor Darrell Miller forecasts a “radical change” in the law concerning Second Amendment gun rights coming from the Court’s conservative justices.

For the Pentagon, films like Top Gun: Maverick are more than just a movie. They are a recruitment bonanza.