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March 8, 2024

Harold Washington’s Lessons for Taking On a Political Machine

Mark Engler and Paul Engler Waging Nonviolence

A new documentary explains how, 40 years ago, Chicago’s first Black mayor shattered status-quo politics, offering insights for grassroots movements today.

March 8, 2024

Florida Is Swamped by Disease

Richard Luscombe The Guardian

In Florida, quackery is replacing science. The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop it.

March 8, 2024

One Big Thing Biden’s SOTU Got Right

Zack Beauchamp Vox

The president dodged the “norms trap” by going straight after Trump on democracy. There is no hypocrisy in defending truth against lies.

Biden Takes Down Supreme Court Justices to Their Faces

March 8, 2024

In one of the most powerful moments of his speech, President Biden warns the Justices that they are about to learn about the political power of women in real life

Working Families Party Responds to State of the Union

March 8, 2024

Why we need to block the right and build the power of working people at the same time

This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology

March 8, 2024

The same technology that helps you rack up kills in your favorite FPS games also helps paleontologists solve million-year-old mysteries.

The IRS Files: How Billionaires Avoid Taxes

March 8, 2024

How billionaires pay little in taxes compared with their massive wealth — sometimes even nothing, explained in one minute

Eagle Pass, TX Residents Sound Off on the Real "Invasion"

March 8, 2024

Who are the real "invaders"? Michael Kosta talks to residents of Eagle Pass who have had it with right-wing media, politicians, and fearmongering Trump supporters.

March 8, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | March 8, 2024

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Eagle Pass Residents Sound Off on the Real "Invasion. " The IRS Files: How Billionaires Avoid Taxes. This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology. Working Families Party Responds to State of the Union. Biden Takes Down Supreme Court Justices.

March 7, 2024

Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Philip C. Kolin, reviewer Portside

No one is better qualified than Peter Neil Carroll to write a book of memorial poems about the valiant men and women who volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.