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With 300 workshops and panels, and almost 5,000 registered attendees, the Labor Notes Conference June 12-14, 2026 in Chicago was an oasis of inspiration and solidarity.

Garment Workers Stand Up to Police Repression (1910), Taking the Declaration of Independence Seriously (1776), The System Was Blinking Red (2001), Surf and Sand Aren’t Private Property! (1896), Hunger Marchers Demand Action (1936)

A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better.

Every food has its own industry, each more desperate than the next to prove it is a superfood so you will buy it and not its competing foods.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s new book about his Weatherman parents, “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young,” contends honestly with the political violence of the 1970s.

The contradictions of the American Revolution.

Scientists hope synthetic cells can tell them things about life that natural cells cannot, including such basic questions as how many genes are necessary for a minimal form of life.

Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.

Few figures on the left have been as committed to realizing the democratic promise of American politics as Eugene Debs.

A progress report on trans-Atlantic comparisons