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“The real threat to the mainstream media as we know it is that there now exists a successful model for avoiding them that didn’t before Nov. 5,” said Michael Socolow, a media historian and professor of journalism at the University of Maine.

Changes would likely make it more difficult for workers to form unions and negotiate workplace improvements, but the labor movement may withstand those headwinds since many of the factors that have driven its growth remain in place, experts said.

For Amin, the struggle against imperialism required a delinking from the law of value on the world level centered in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, and Tokyo, and its replacement by a more “polycentric” or “multipolar” world order...

"This will be the Biden administration's legacy: unconditional support for war crimes and complicity in genocide," said one group

Palestinians and their allies must build on down-ballot wins, while recognizing the limitations of electoral politics in the face of Israel’s genocidal campaign.

Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.

The real headline of this election isn’t about Trump’s victory. It’s about how the Federalist Society coalition of plutocrats and theocrats has all but completed its mission to repeal and replace the 20th Century by judicial fiat. 

"The bill could usher in repression on a massive scale," one critic warned.