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Bernd Gehrke is critical of those in the peace movement and left who dismissed the threat of invasion coming from Russia - a failure to understand the genesis of today’s Russian capitalism and its emergence from Soviet-era party bureaucracy.

The protests roiling Israel represent a struggle over its future. The traditional elite is in an existential fight to maintain power, while the ascendant religious-nationalist majority seeks to redefine the state.

Former President Donald Trump was indicted today by a New York Grand Jury for criminal violations that may have occurred when Trump’s team paid two women to stay silent about alleged affairs with candidate Trump in 2016.

Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements

This book, writes reviewer Wendland-Liu, shifts the geographic focus of "origins of capitalism" debates from Europe "to the motion, spaces, circuits and conflicts in multiple global sites and stages of economic production relations."

Writers, producers, stylists, and other workers on “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “The Kitchen” are forming a union with the Writers Guild of America, East

The court is being asked to overturn an Appeals Court decision that would allow domestic abusers to possess firearms despite the fact that "the presence of a gun in a house with a domestic abuser increases the risk of homicide sixfold.”

Those beliefs are not evil but are stopping our healthcare system from being universally accessible to all Americans. Consequently, let’s examine how each assumption is challenged by how our healthcare compares to other nations’ healthcare plans.

Protesters call for justice as blaze at detention facility in Ciudad Juárez highlights tough US immigration policies

Our public schools shouldn't be pawns for politicians' ambitions. Or defunded and destroyed by ideologues. We are at a crossroads: Fear and division, or hope and opportunity. A great nation does not fear people being educated.