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Here is a review of a new history of the pro-Nazi movement in the United States in the years before World War II. That movement was far more popular than many people know.

Gov. David Ige and Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell told striking hotel workers Monday during a meeting at the state Capitol that they would not cross the picket line and have urged their hotel managers and owners to resume bargaining.

The creator of Godwin’s law interviews David Simon about Nazis on Twitter and so much more.

US presidents have been appeasing brutal dictatorships for years. Trump merely does it with appalling and brazen clarity

First Man is a paean to American greatness. It does include a montage of protesters demanding that the money on NASA be spent to help the poor and hungry, set to Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey on the Moon”. That might have been a good title for the film.

GOP Ad Says Democrats Lynch; Trump's Trans Purge; Debating the Right; Violent Right Rising; New New Left; Georgia vs Voters; Voters Standing Fast

The murder conviction of Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke didn’t happen in a vacuum—it was the result of years of community outrage over police violence.

Atlanta was the first US city to build public housing – and the first to knock it all down. Now, with rampant property speculation in black working-class areas, longtime residents are being priced out

Powell’s proposal — a corporate takeover of US politics to carve off a bigger piece of the pie — was just the remedy for their ongoing crisis of profitability. Corporate America was all in.

Democratic socialist and Pennsylvania State House candidate Kristin Seale talks to Jacobin about Medicare for All, the state of class consciousness in America, and the Democrats’ failure to challenge right-wing talking points.