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Feel-good news stories are hard to resist. And why wouldn't they be? The rest of the news is stressing us out. Political divides are deepening. The world is getting hotter. Ending, maybe.

Across the board, Ilhan Omar has been a stalwart champion of policies to improve life for the working classes, including the white working class often considered Trump's base - and, perhaps, a few of those folks who were chanting for her removal.

Will the United States and other nations survive these escalating preparations for nuclear war? In fact, the U.S. government and others are increasing the role that nuclear weapons play in their "national security" policies.

Tuesday night was Bernie and Liz vs. the world. Warren and Sanders parried attack after attack from a number of centrists desperate to claw their way into the next debate, counter-punching hard as they defended their stridently progressive policies.

Labour and Brexit, Puerto Rico en la lucha, Hong Kong's ongoing fight against extradition, Fighting repression in Colombia, Opposing communal and caste violence in India, Ágnes Heller remembered, 98 years of the SACP, Plea for Iranian unionists

Here is a book, says reviewer Nava, that makes "a significant contribution to queer history and to understanding the forces that shape contemporary queer identity."

The Democratic debate was an inevitable by-product of turning news into an entertainment and cultural product

The world watched as the Puerto Rican people proved to be some of the most good-humored yet determined protesters in recent history.

An increasingly international campaign to tar the BDS movement as “anti-Semitic” comes as Israel’s staunchest global defenders are increasingly anti-Semites themselves.

It will take a combination of worker power, union muscle, and legislative force to make equal pay a reality. However, if these athletes have made one thing clear, it’s that quitting isn’t an option — they’re certainly not giving up.