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First inventory of the election from hell

Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, newspapers and magazines have been obsessed with constructing a mythology of a “forgotten” white working class. Hillbilly Elegy just reinforces the stereotypes it insists it’s illuminating.

"The Trump administration is trying to get a lot of stuff like this out the door ASAP."

"The full data set on which the claim is based has not yet been released and so we don’t know exactly what has been found." Eleanor Riley, University of Edinburgh

A great many people did not vote for Joe Biden, they voted against Trump. We have to recognise how narrow this win was

“There’s a litany of things the Trump administration has done that we have to undo,” said Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.), who serves on the House Education and Labor Committee and is a top contender for labor secretary in the Biden administrtation.

Labor organizing in California and around the world is pushing platform companies to take extreme measures to defend their exploitative business model.

Currently the US has no coherent foreign policy on nuclear weapons and no climate policy. We are also benighted by a press and politicians for whom nuclear weapons seem to be a non-issue, gauging by primary and presidential debates.

Bolivia’s MAS party will confront numerous challenges when returning to power. But its resounding victory against the authoritarian right and its roots as a party of social movements represent a radical vision of hope at a time when we need it most.

Israel lobby groups are once again attempting to manipulate public education in California in order to censor Palestinian and Arab scholarship, under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism.