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California poet Christine Holland transforms the famous phrase by John Keats from a statement of personal anxiety to a lament for the planet and all its creatures.

The gravity inside Congress is already poised to radically shift – and the primary season is far from over. In primary elections across the U.S. this year, progressive outsiders have defeated moderates and centrists and dethroned multiple incumbents.

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. A Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives more precarious. Billionaires usually get what they want. They get the government they want, so long as they make the right donations.

Core disputes over how to utilize political power may not be resolved in time to form a new Joint List — and competing parties are ready to capitalize.

The cockroach youth uprising has already pushed through collective fear, and changed what Indians of all ages believe is possible.

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Co-Ops Create Worker-Driven Ownership and Leadership Structure

Oversize personalities converge, to introduce or, for most readers, reintroduce subject and author. Howard Zinn. Yet Zinn’s work and life stand against what Trumpians seek to do to US history and today’s hardly-surviving democratic institutions.

Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.

While Rubio has spent much of his political career fighting the Cuban regime, it is almost unbelievable that even he would lend his name to such a report filled with lies and threats against American citizens.