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Texas brought this crisis on themselves by insisting on operating their own power grid that doesn’t connect with others; by failing to do anything to make the grid more resilient; by creating a political system that is controlled by power and money.

Essential workers prepare international strike on Women's Day, and more reports from popular movements and left parties

This new novel is a tale of union organizing, class struggle, and romance.

Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Workers at fast-food restaurant chains in 15 cities around the US went on strike on Tuesday demanding a raise in their minimum wage to $15 an hour.

More than ever, many entrenched Democrats are worried about primary challenges from the left. Such fears are all to the good.

Capitalism stands naked before the world, and other news

The lawsuit claims that the former president and his personal lawyer violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by conspiring with white supremacist groups to incite the insurrection.

Rosy portraits of an expanding economy hide the chronic weakness of the US economy and especially the burdens imposed on poor and minority communities. Fear of inflation on the part of Republicans is insincere and ill timed.