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Cold War Puerto Rico by Steve Howell argues that Washington has long treated the island as giant aircraft carrier. The result has been severe: residents face economic strain while lacking many democratic rights and social protections.

Millionaires are only 7% of the U.S. population, but make up half of Congress. It’s long overdue for the workers who create the wealth to have the same opportunity to govern.

The president made a jaw-dropping confession when asked about the impacts of the Iran war.

“The politicians attacking voting rights today are clinging to a shrinking vision of America rooted in fear, exclusion, and minority rule.”

Rejecting surveillance capitalism means insisting, clearly and unapologetically, that markets should serve the people — not the other way around, writes NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Commissioner Sam Levine.

Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted.

A. J. A. Woods’s new book explores how the Right’s obsession with Cultural Marxism emerged from the backlash against the 1960s.

American Library Association staff are voting this month to form a union.

Opposing all forms of imperialism