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This urgently current volume will be widely discussed in the months ahead, with another important book on the same subject, appearing last Fall: Peter Beinart’s Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.

Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) ended for no reason in 2022. The program’s demise ripped away a lifeline from from workers who lose jobs because of the adverse effects of global trade.

It’s not just Graham Platner. In Maine’s gubernatorial race, logger and labor leader Troy Jackson is mounting an economic populist campaign that promises to build bridges between urban progressives and rural working-class voters.

Author Kimberlé Crenshaw says that the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court know America is not post-racial but insist on pretending that it is.

Popular Information crunches the numbers. The official accounting is at least $47 billion too low.

The decades-long strategy that gutted the middle class and then turned Americans against each other to cover it up…

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

Workers in San Diego joined global May Day demonstrations on Friday to demand better working conditions and advocate for immigrants’ rights. Rallies across San Diego County, including one at Chicano Park, drew more than 500 participants.

A May Day to remember

The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.