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A look at the new documentary, “The Big Scary ‘S’ Word” in which director Yael Bridge explores how socialist ideas that were once considered radical are now taken for granted by most Americans.

The past four years have birthed a progressive movement so extraordinary it just might survive the forces that threaten its extinction.

Massive protests rock the world! Nigeria * Chile * Belarus * Iraq * Indonesia * Poland * Thailand * Israel * Costa Rica * Hungary

This new book, by the head of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, is a timely warning. "Its tone is set early on, with an epigraph from Heinrich Heine," writes reviewer Larman: “Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

Union households swung dramatically for Trump in 2016. He seems to be losing ground with them in 2020.

Politics is about power, and the left will have more under a Biden presidency.

"We're not good enough right now," the New York Democrat says of her party, and unless the material lives of working-class people are improved the nation's dangerous slide to the right will continue.

Some protesters face stacked charges and threats of deportation; others have been charged with police assault with no reports of injuries

Former senate president Salvatierra told Jacobin how the restored MAS government can undo the damage caused by last year’s coup — and set Bolivia back on the path to social transformation.

The true star of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” is Borat’s daughter, played by Maria Bakalova. She’s also the source of its most incisive critique.