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The American people deserve and require leadership from Washington amid this horrific pandemic and economic meltdown. In this unprecedented moment in American history, we need an unprecedented legislative response.

On the agenda: new internationalism, and ending the war with nature. News and analysis from and about the left worldwide.

The great English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), writes reviewer Johnston, based his groundbreaking style on the "radical claim that apparently trivial things and people, the rhythms of ordinary life, were the stuff of true poetry."

During the Spanish Flu in 1919 four million workers struck, one-fifth of the workforce, a proportion never since equaled.

“While this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not,” Mr. Sanders said in a video address on Wednesday.

Bestowing dignity on the overlooked and marginalized was a common theme throughout Prine's career; he became known for detailed vignettes about ordinary people that illustrated larger truths about society.

"Why would we want a return to normalcy? We need a vision for the future, not a return to the past."

An author in Rome describes what to expect based on her experiences of lockdown

How Labor and Climate Movements Deal With Distancing, and More

'Bacurau' was filmed before Jair Bolsonaro won the corrupted election for presidency of Brazil, yet in its timelessness seems to say more now about Brazil and global North-South relations than even before.