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A 180° turn remaps world politics

A sex worker in a romantic comedy isn’t new. How the Oscar-nominated film uses immigrant Brooklyn to subvert the genre? That’s different.

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Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail. They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms. Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens these areas already lacking services.

The artwork in this dossier draws from the Red Books Day 2025 Calendar. Each of the twelve contributions, produced in collaboration with the International Union of Left Publishers, is inspired by a red book from a different region of the world.

Militant Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Catches On (1960), The 20th Century’s Largest One-Day Demonstration (1930), ‘Bloody Sunday’ (1965), March 8, International Women’s Day

Some fear disaster, others calmly accept a new reality in U.S.-Ukraine relations. The treatment of Ukraine’s president by Trump and Vance has produced a presumably unintended consequence: It has unified a war-weary Ukrainian people.

Today, while the Trump administration continues to unveil new attacks on what the Bible calls, “the least of these,” it’s important to remember the prophetic tradition of faith leaders of the past as well as the heroic moral organizing happening now.

There may be “some pain” Trump admitted of his tariff schemes; “But we will Make America Great Again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid.”

Astronomers believe that a mysterious, invisible substance fills up the universe. Known as dark matter, they think it is a new kind of particle. But efforts over decades to find this particle have come up short.