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In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, and economics in America are killing us sooner, and what we can do to change it.

We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.

Unless war in Sudan is reframed as an attack on civilians aimed at rolling back gains made during the 2019 revolution, rather than a war between generals, the conference ‘will remain an exercise in optics and will not be a genuine pathway to peace.’

Life is not a fairy tale. Having good politics does not mean that life will be easy. It just means that you will be able to look back on your life and know that you tried to make the whole world better and not worse.

In the throes of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, immigration enforcement was becoming embedded within colleges, with little to no community oversight, legal transparency, or guardrails to protect students, faculty, or staff.

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Latin America’s anti-imperialist traditions point to one possible outcome of the U.S.’s newly aggressive stance: a resurgence of anti-imperialist sentiment as the organizing principle for a new generation of activists.

When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome?

We won’t stop US wars, effectively tackle climate change, stave off US-style fascism, or halt the march to a nakedly might-makes-right world order without a vision for a transformed role for the US in today’s interconnected world.