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Unlike most of the other struggles of this era, this strike rested on the firm backbone of the women of the mining families and communities who continued the fight when the men were beaten and jailed and the strike near defeat.

It’s never a good look when Americans must rely on Russian hackers to see who’s influencing our Supreme Court.

The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.

Jamshid Ahmadi talks to Left MP Sevim Dagdelen about the disastrous showing for the party in the German federal elections in September and what lessons can be drawn.

In 1970, tens of thousands of people in East Los Angeles marched for equality, identifying themselves as “Chicano.” Today, the Chicano Moratorium continues as young and old learn from one another.

The book version of the famed (and reviled) magazine issue is much longer, easier to read, and changed in canny ways that will help it endure.

The settlers whom many Americans mythologize at Thanksgiving as peace-loving Pilgrims issued government orders offering cash for dead Native American children

It’s the first time in almost a quarter-century that a coalition backed by Teamsters for a Democratic Union has taken the driver’s seat in the international union.

"Give Republicans this: they're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open."

Esther Kamkar writes political poetry indirectly, taking us back to the unforgettable images of the death of a child trying to cross the Rio Grande.