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In a sense, the current debate over just how much employment is or isn’t “precarious” misses the bigger change in U.S. working-class life over the past three decades or more: the decline in living standards experienced by the vast majority of this class. One measure of this is the fall in both hourly and weekly real wages which despite some ups and downs remain below their 1972 level.

Nine months ago Birmingham became first city in the Deep South to raise the minimum wage, then saw it overturned by law described as 'a slap in the face'

This project allows us to explore the relationships between social movements by bringing them together in time and space. We map the 353 towns and cities that elected socialists to public office between 1904 and 1920. These are interactive maps that can be filtered on a number of variables while providing detailed information about places, publications, periodicals.

Socialist politics come from below, not experts. But that doesn't mean we should cede policy debates to neoliberals.

The English poet John Daniel provides a perfect Mother's Day memory of his hard-working Mum, Violet Daniel, who defied the usual expectations of mothering. Happy Mothers Day!

Huge supercolliders aren’t the only way to search for new physical phenomena. A new generation of experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.

Does anybody truly believe that, had Sanders run as an independent, he would have made such a large political impact on this race? By running as a Democrat, Sanders has advanced progressive politics at the national level far more effectively than has Jill Stein, or even Ralph Nader. There is a lesson there.

Anonymous whistleblower says "Panama Papers are, if nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society's progressively diseased and decaying moral fabric."

Republican elected officials and party leaders do not have time for retrospective contemplation. They have a decision to make. The party belongs to Trump now, just as Rome belonged to the barbarians, and GOP politicians have to decide whether to fall in line or take up arms against the new order.