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Once upon a time, Americans riding the rails could choose menus of charbroiled steak, golden French toast, and prunes.

In New York City, a disgraced mayor and a discredited Democratic Party are creating potential openings for socialists. NYC history suggests that the Left might profitably revive proportional representation as a tool to build its electoral strength.

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The new developments have raised alarms on whether America’s global lead in artificial intelligence is shrinking and called into question big tech’s massive spend on building AI models and data centers.

Harvard University has laid off the staff of its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates.

The Palestinian political leader talks to Drop Site on the eve of another exchange of captives

These exploitative dynamics are rooted in slavery and are particularly extreme in the South, which incarcerates people—primarily Black men—at the highest rates in the world.

Since the very earliest days of the United States, class was a central lens through which Americans interpreted politics . . . in the 1960s politicians began to focus on race and gender . . . Now, with Trump . . . class appears to be back . . .

The first season of Mo, comedian Mo Amer’s Netflix show, was a funny, moving look at life as a Palestinian immigrant in the US – then 7 October turned everything on its head. He talks about ceasefire hopes and why he can’t stop crying

Blanc argues that the current imbalance of power between labor and management in the U.S. can only be changed, for the better, with large-scale, coordinated organizing efforts rooted in the rank-and-file. His most detailed case focuses on Starbucks.