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Historian Nancy MacLean, author of the best-selling "Democracy in Chains," argues that privatizing public education is a dream of the radical right dating back to the segregationist South.

The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.

Understanding the forces deforming our cities today requires more than a class analysis of capitalist land speculation. We have to talk about race.

Pushing Back and Pushing Forward in the First Six Months of the Trump Era.

The Sicilian born Marxist-feminist talks about the new, global wave of women-led mobilizations and the continuing importance of class politics.

By folding a discussion of mental illness and its stigmas into the series, The Tick has proven a powerful source of representation.

IUPAT has launched a national “Free Hugo” campaign, calling on ICE to release one of thei rmembers from detention so he can be with his family while his asylum petition is heard.

Why was this Chicago-based group defunded by the Countering Violent Extremism task force?

Giving workers the power to improve their jobs and unrig the economy

The United States is in the process of building a vast nuclear arsenal that appears to be aimed at having the ability to fight and win nuclear wars. The fact that the concept of fighting and winning a nuclear war is completely divorced from the realities of nuclear weapons effects has not deterred the United States from moving forward as if such an objective is possible.