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Ideas for the present and the future from the international left, news reports, and more.

The right-to-work law has been the centerpiece of a years-long, partisan-driven agenda by the anti-worker Republican majority in West Virginia to lower wages and benefits and eliminate workplace safety regulations.

Protests against COVID-19 restrictions, like the Tea Party protests, are corporate fronts.

New data from 29 states confirm the extent of the racial disparities.

The White House is functionally waging a war against state leadership and the initiative of local hospitals to secure what they need to provide sufficient treatment.

Netflix’s documentary 'Tiger King' is the apotheosis of extreme storytelling: The more unfathomable and ethically dubious, the better.

Anatomy of a Trump briefing, and other hot media messes

The United Electrical workers’ union and the Democratic Socialists of America are teaming up to help nonunion workers organize during the coronavirus crisis. The goal: find workers who are already spoiling for a fight and help them win it.

"Make America Great Again" is shorthand for "No to a Multiracial Democracy, Back to a White Republic."

April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and we’d planned to make it a BIG one. Hundreds of organizations representing millions of people worldwide were planning a massive global strike.