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Protests are essential to the democratic experience and can never be replaced by online activism or voting.

You cannot outflank the right by adopting its promises, that way you only end up as its handmaiden.

Any amateur politician can engage in lying. Trump is engaging in “post-truth.” Ideology takes precedence over reality.

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A counterintuitive if rigorous argument that the sex lives of men and women under the Soviets were better than those in the capitalist West, based on the system's ability to deliver the sort of social benefits unavailable even in Scandinavia.

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Skokie and the Nazis - there were massive counter-demonstrations, black and Jewish solidarity, Holocaust survivors who vowed to confront the Nazis in the streets, and a grassroots of proud, leftist Jews.This untold history offers lessons for today.

Congress should propose a bill that would grant a pathway for TPS (Temporary Protected Status) recipients to remain in the country permanently.

Taylor Sappington is exactly the kind of candidate his party should want in Ohio. He couldn’t get union support. Democrats were at such a woeful level in Ohio that unions felt as if they had no choice but to make friends with some GOP candidates.

Labor organizers and researchers said they had not heard of Amazon previously coming to the table after worker pressure, even for private discussions. Last week, Amazon offered some compromises at its facilities in the Minneapolis area.