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Blue-collar voters in northern France are often seen as a natural base for Marine Le Pen’s surging far right. Yet while her party has made major inroads in this electorate, local elections saw Communists resist what seemed like inevitable defeat.

“The United States and Iran are trapped in a conflict in which each new escalation only deepens a shared, losing predicament... Sooner rather than later, both will confront the urgency of finding an off-ramp.”

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Meatpacking workers face an uphill battle as they fight for better conditions. Union density in the industry has fallen precipitously. Up to 90 percent of meatpacking workers belonged to unions in the postwar era, but only 15 percent did by 2019.

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A system of concentration camps is being built and it's time the nation reckon with this monstrosity before any more people are killed. ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration.

We spoke to Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman about doing body horror at a time of real horrors, the hope at the heart of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, and her emergence as a top local canvasser for Bernie Sanders’s last presidential run.

As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. ‘It’s a movement,’ says Patriotic Millionaires’ Chuck Collins. Washington isn’t the first state to pass a so-called millionaire tax, and it won’t be the last.

America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline. The expanding war in Iran and the subsequent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have fractured global energy supply chain

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