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In the last 15 years agents with the Customs and Border Protection Agency have used deadly force in states up to 160 miles from the border, from Maine to California. These Customs and Border Protection encounters have proven deadly for at least 97 people – citizens and non-citizens – since 2003.

Revolutionaries, Agitators, and Organizers in Crime Fiction

After six days of striking, Arizona educators are returning to work. Jacobin spoke with three strike leaders to assess the settlement.

The ‘One Democratic State Campaign’ program for a multicultural democratic state in Palestine/Israel

The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests — just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onetime lawyer to the president.

In a right-to-work setting, workers have the option to be free riders, receiving the benefits of unionization without paying membership dues or fees.

California poet Dorothy Barresi nails a certain candidate on the campaign trail: "tight tense talk & leering merit of American man" and guess who she means.

Democrats have a problem the Republicans don’t. The pursuit of big money drives establishment Democrats to adopt positions — and to nurture a political culture — that prevents them from winning their natural constituencies.

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

Marx’s work remains the most compelling framework for analyzing how the conflicting tendencies in present-day society contain the seeds of a more humane future.