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There is no better way to help Main Street than to elect members of Congress who appreciate Social Security’s immensely positive impact on our economy – and will work hard to expand on the program’s promise.

Progressive Democrat Stacey Abrams is taking on Trump-style Republican Brian Kemp in a state where all 82 of its governors have been white men

Sorry to Bother You, directed by Boots Riley, Annapurna Pictures, The film’s real heroes are the people, the modern Levellers and Diggers—the gravediggers of capitalism.

Even when there are mandatory evacuation orders, many businesses insist that employees still show up for work. Many more This forces many to make an impossible choice between protecting their lives or protecting their jobs

Giant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems.

The authoritarian snoops of the last century would have drooled over the surveillance uses of the smartphones that most of us now carry. Smartphones have, in fact, become one of the primo law enforcement tools other than the Internet.

Austerity prevails in the West because three powerful political tribes champion it.

The realization of Palestinian rights may be a marathon, but right now, it is also a sprint. The race is on, to be made to vanish or to be seen and heard.

Bread "crumbs" found in fireplaces used by hunter-gatherers 14,000 years ago predate agriculture by thousands of years

We won’t hold anyone accountable, not even former leftists, unless the mass movements on the grass roots level continue to grow and organize. They won’t grow through elections.