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The defeat of the regressive tax bill is an unprecedented triumph for the youth, the urban poor, and the unions of teachers and health care workers who promoted the uprising.

It’s not the ‘woke’ who want to erase the past, but those who are determined that it should never be examined.

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.

This day in 1945, Nazi Germany finally surrendered. Faced with revisionist attempts to claim the war was a struggle between “twin totalitarianisms,” we should remember the working-class partisans who resisted the fascist violence

The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail is a Fig Leaf for Privatization.

“Where profit ignites,” writes the late poet Al Young, “lives go out.”

From preventing redundancies to getting workers furloughed, unions have often done the government’s job in this crisis.

Cicadas, like us, have come to rely on an interconnected ecosystem of their own creation that becomes more unwieldy and fragile with time, and that they can barely control.

Biden could kick-start labor organizing, without approval from Congress.

Care isn’t a burden for women and families to shoulder alone. It’s the foundation of our economy, and it deserves to be treated as such.