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Russian sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next

We don't need an answer before acting.

Largely ignored is the positive role veterans from working-class backgrounds have played in key labor and political struggles since the mid-20th century.

Back in the Sixties, a young Black activist Rap Brown said “violence is as American as cherry pie” and see now how much has not changed.

America’s wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and more — along with our endless involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan — have created a weapons-saturated politics of policing, border control and mass incarceration. This reshaping is not one-dimensional...

From time to time, Vladimir Putin or one of his cronies has hinted that the Russians, pressed to the wall, might use a “tactical” nuclear weapon in Ukraine. And Russian military leaders have reportedly been discussing just such a possibility.

Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about the direction of the occupation state.

Andrew Tripp has organized more than 100,000 people in Vermont and 20 other states, and has coached Nordic skiing, track and field, and cross-country running, outside of Montpelier, Vermont. In 2021, he was named top boys' coach in the country.

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International Women’s Day is next week, when we celebrates the achievements of women in numerous walks of life–individual women who broke the proverbial glass ceiling and achieved success in careers and professions from which they had been excluded.