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Mass opposition to Chile’s far-right Führer

With some gerrymandered seats looking much more competitive than they hoped, Republicans are wondering if mid-decade redistricting can actually save their majority.

The House just passed a resolution condemning the Democratic Socialists of America and socialism broadly. While it rehearses opposition to Stalinist authoritarianism, the bill’s real preoccupation is with socialists’ advocacy for expanded democracy.

Resources that could be going toward preventing human trafficking or domestic terrorism are instead going toward a phantom problem: vanishingly rare non-citizen voting.

Wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation’s income since the government began measuring them in 1947.

Public enemy: data centers

This Labor Day, celebrate with 17 movies that remind us that we work to live, not the other way around.

Activists Resist U.S. Government Deportation Spree (1981), Round Up the Usual Suspects! (1901), ‘Freedom Began Here’ (1851), Sunshine Is the Best Disinfectant (1976), A Billion Here, A Billion There, Pretty Soon You’re Talking About Real Money (1996)

In his new book, Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement (Cornell), sociology professor Kim Scipes examines parallel efforts to build two CIO unions in the Midwest—via the Steel Workers and Packinghouse Workers.

The protest movement by young people in India has challenged the culture of fear that protects Narendra Modi’s Hindutva government. They are carving out the space for a future without Modi and his divisive authoritarian agenda.