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"This man should not be addressing Congress," said the New York Democrat. "He is a war criminal."

Life in Brooklyn

It could hardly be clearer that the world is already in the throes of a climate catastrophe. That means it’s high time for the U.S. to declare a national climate emergency to help focus us all on the disaster at hand.

Confronting the normalization of political violence and stopping it from undermining the practice of inclusive democracy in the United States requires tapping into the power of communities, to resist violence and make it backfire.

Policymakers can only make sensible decisions when they understand what the tax system’s shortcomings have done to Black communities.

No strike agreements are almost ubiquitous in union contracts these days, according to labor studies professor Jeff Schuhrke at SUNY Empire State.

A new report by a UN commission finds that Israel intended to murder civilians en masse, inflict wide-scale civilian destruction, and collectively punish Palestinians in Gaza — holding them hostage to its political aims.

Director Jane Schoenbrun and stars Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine talk bringing trans horror to the big screen.

Choose Democracy launched a set of online tools and strategy games to help prepare for this election and after. The tools invite participants to explore their reactions and options, to plot their own route through uncharted territory.

Du Bois is rightly venerated for his work on civil rights. But by discarding him, the American foreign policy establishment robbed itself of one of the twentieth century’s most perceptive and prescient critics of capitalism and imperialism.