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Any serious social transformation will elicit a brutal response by the rulers. Again, the rulers will seek to derail the transformation.

...military and CIA drones that hover constantly over eight countries across the Greater Middle East and Africa, and regularly terrorize, maim, and kill civilians, including children, are equivalents of disturbed shooters in American schools.

“it’s the obligation of the international community...to stop supplying Israel with the weapons that it used to kill Razan and so many others like her. I call on organizations and states to implement our Palestinian call for a military embargo..."

The Trump administration continues to attack workers and rollback worker rights.

Sacramento City Teachers Association authorizes strike over unfair labor practices

Veep has, always, been chock-full of other apparent sociopaths—which is what makes the show’s resemblance to America’s actual political reality so troubling.

With a black mayor at the helm once again, it remains to be seen whether a Harold Washington-style African-American and Latino coalition can emerge to fight for socioeconomic and political parity with whites in Chicago.

From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.

A new study says that income inequality, not historic factors, feeds the present-day gulf in wealth between white and black households.

It would maximize participation and broad-based appeal, and improve our democracy.