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Donald Sutherland (1935–2024) projected equal parts warmth, intelligence, and menace on the big screen. But he wasn’t just a brilliant actor — he was a man of the Left who never abandoned those values.

A Review of “The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right” by Oliver Eagleton, Verso Books 2022

We Africans have to value what we have more and what we are, to value culture, something that is not tangible and cannot be bought and sold, like money.

A vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales.

Workers are using creative tactics to win protections against excessive heat in the workplace.

A middle class is not a normal thing, and if a country wants one it must be created by direct government intervention in the marketplace…

Elections are fundamentally about choosing coalitions, not just casting votes. While coalitions require compromise, the key is to make strategic concessions without abandoning core principles.

A Successful Experiment (1959), Boycotts Can Work (1959), Hospital Workers Win Big (1969), Malcolm X’s Last Stand (1964), Brilliance Gets Shafted (1954), Throwing Shade on Racism (1989), Hit the Road, Dictator (1944), Nazis Deadly Discipline (1934)

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled.

Even before Douglass arrived in Ireland in 1845, he was aware of the rich tradition of Irish men and women involved in the transatlantic movement to bring an end to the U.S. system of enslavement.