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The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resource

The department contacted at least three counties to request detailed records about individual voters. A representative told one election official “all 254 counties will be contacted.”

Trump really doesn't understand America's role in the world

Their move had come because the elite enslavers who controlled those southern states believed that Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860 itself marked the end of their way of life.

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US vice-president rails against ‘bureaucrats in Brussels’ interfering in Sunday’s vote during Budapest visit

Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.

At the national level, the New Democratic Party is down, but it is not out. And Lewis represents its best chance for renewal and success

FIFA has always loved dictatorships. Italy was chosen in 1934 because fascism would ensure discipline. When the Soviet Union refused to play a 1973 match in Pinochet’s Chile (because the pitch was a concentration camp), FIFA disqualified the USSR.

I don’t believe you can be a non-feminist Marxist if you want to think about capitalism today, because you have to understand how gender and a patriarchal system are intertwined to shape who workers are.