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This new book is a history of the struggle over trade policy, and the impact of trade policy on U.S. society, from 1974 to the present.

If only Emancipation actually had a memorable message. Despite a committed cast and stunning cinematography, the film’s script is too blunt and the direction too ham-fisted to make it anything more than another rote entry in the slavery-movie genre.

Is the Republican Party the political equivalent of Chucky?

Berlin Bulletin #206 January 17 2023 The lack of homes for working class and also for middle-class seekers is a nation-wide emergency. Somehow, allegedly due to rising costs, there is never enough money to build affordable homes, repair schools, open needed kindergartens and reverse damaging reductions in public health care.

The leader of the Poor People’s Campaign will train the next generation of ‘moral fusion leaders’ at the Yale divinity school

America's Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe

At the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos this week, elites will try to address problems from climate change to the threat of worldwide recession. But these elites’ endless thirst for profit will doom their efforts to fail.

As more strikes succeed, Kate Bahn, chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, says workers are more likely to organize them at their own workplaces.

How nuclear weapons gradually became a key part of international relations.

King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.