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A look back at the history-making mobilization against the Iraq War that turned ordinary people into a “second superpower” — one we badly need today.

2022 was yet another important year for the US labor movement, with organizing victories at major private employers and an increase in strikes across the country from the prior year.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for America to “separate by red states and blue states” isn’t just dumb and harmless. It’s also a window into a dangerous vision that’s ascendent in the Republican Party.

Bernie Sanders is angry about capitalism. You should be too. Here are eight lessons from our favorite democratic socialist’s new book.

W.D. Ehrhart’s poem “The Day I Discovered Racism” leaves the reader first with shock and then….

Lodi workers are part of a larger trend of US workers seeking better conditions in food and hospitality.

Imagination involves creating a mental image of something that is not present. Imagination is one of the key abilities that make us human. But where did it come from?

Biden is right to highlight Republican attacks on Social Security. He should also propose a plan to expand it.

From Karl Marx to Eugene Debs to 1930s American Communists, leftists have regarded Lincoln as a prolabor hero who played a crucial role in vanquishing chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today as part of the great radical democratic tradition.

How can too many of my fellow progressives, who marched against Bush’s “preemptive” war in Iraq, now find preemptive war by Putin justified by “NATO provocation”?