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It is important for us to rethink the usual categories, including «defense of the Motherland,» clearing them of militarism. It is worth defending the Motherland first of all from poverty, violence, war, corrupt politicians and unscrupulous capital.

The real struggle must not be reduced to dichotomies that speak to people’s emotions, but rather found in the structural causes that allow a small segment of humanity to exploit and enrich itself on the backs of billions of “others,” and to self-attribute to itself a sense of moral superiority.

Death by incarceration is the most prevalent and most overlooked form of state sponsored execution. They call it a life sentence, but that is a misnomer. Any prison sentence that a person cannot outlive is a sentence to death.

On Thursday the Municipal Labor Council voted to shunt up to 250,000 city retirees into a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan.

Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture.

The expected approval of the massive Willow oil project would be just the latest shift by Biden toward the political center before a potential reelection bid.

In this week of International Women’s Day, poet Philip C. Kolin remembers the courage of US women in demanding the right to vote.

The shrinking of unions effectively redistributes income from low- and middle-income workers to affluent investors.

March 14 (3/14) is officially Pi Day. Pi gets all the fanfare, but other numbers also deserve their own math holidays.

New Politics interviews Taras Bilous, a Ukrainian historian and editor of Ukrainian socialist magazine Sotsialniy Rukh, about the Ukrainian political spectrum and a wide range of issues.