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Lee Saunders, President of AFSCME, has led the country’s top union for local public workers at a time of growing public support and official opposition. He is retiring after leading the union for 15years.

Missions and manifestos

Anti-immigrant sentiment threatens to upend South Africa's inclusive democracy.

The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same Democrats changed their tune.

Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.

The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.

The Lord of the Rings author’s debt to Norse mythology is simply irrelevant when it comes to the appearance of hobbits and elves on screen today

ICE breaking, data center shutting and more

“ICE has been ordered to round up nurses, home health aides, factory workers, teachers, students, and thousands of others who have been living and working here legally for years; who’ve done nothing wrong.”

Rebels Aren’t the Noble Warriors They Would Like to Think They Are (1861), The Civil War Was Over, but Not the Bloodthirsty Racism (1866), Take Your Fugitive Slave Law and Shove It! (1836), Killing Anti-Eviction Protesters Isn’t a Good Look (1931)