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Scranton Joe, once the neoliberal Senator from Delaware, translated left ideas into unthreatening but inspiring language Wednesday night. Which is a huge accomplishment.

How should we relate to working class resistance in countries with governments the US State Department has in its sights?

The book provides an inside look at how the terms "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" entered worldwide discourse in the wake of the Nuremberg trials.

The worker center movement definitely considers itself a part of the bigger-picture labor movement. Worker centers have to be a center of experimentation on how to improve working standards.

"Millions continue to die because pharma monopolies have created vaccine scarcity in the global south," said one public health campaigner.

Human Rights Watch is the latest watchdog to accuse Israel of perpetuating a version of the racist legal system that once governed South Africa. Israel says the charge is baseless.

Leftist lawyer Michael Tigar has spent his life in courtrooms defending a wide range of names big and small on the Left, from Vietnam War draft resisters to Bobby Seale and Angela Davis. He captures them all in a new memoir.

From Mesopotamian irrigation to McDonalds, the bestselling food writer tells Oliver Milman that his new history of food is his most important work

Minari is a gentle, universal story about a resilient South Korean family trying to make it in 1980s America. You should watch it.

The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil