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After all, writing one’s own history, too, is an act of emancipation.

‘Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward,’ said Bernie Sanders. Here’s how to make that happen.

Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed.

Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases

How France responded when a right to post was taken away. Holiday gift scams, Substack, the Huawei war, and more.

I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.

Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything, and everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution.

As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying.

Joe Biden’s likely nominee to head the powerful Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, called for cuts to Social Security, saying, “we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes.”

“It is so disrespectful of the agencies and the employers to shunt these cases aside and not do everything possible to investigate the exposures,” said Peg Seminario, a retired union health and safety director.