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...the U.S. has worked through the U.N. (and its predecessor, the League of Nations) to build a harsh global drug prohibition regime -- grounded in draconian laws, enforced by pervasive policing, and punished with mass incarceration.

The rank-and-file strategy isn't enough. We should examine the broad range of working-class organizing strategies and experiences that are today's socialists' collective heritage.

Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails after eight days without food.

Although matzo balls are not strictly a Passover food, they are almost always on the menu of Passover seders.

New York nurses are wrapping up a ratification vote on a historic agreement.

Spies, politics and murder in Channel 4’s poised new 1945-set espionage thriller.

While NYSNA's headlines claim a historic win, a groundswell of rank-and-file nurses are staunchly opposed to the deal.

Ratification is currently underway, and when ratified, this agreement stands to set a liberating precedent for nurses across the country (except CA where staffing limits are law) who are eager for safer working conditions for themselves and patients.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

Daniel Ellsberg, peace activist and Vietnam War whistleblower discusses with Tellus Senior Fellow Allen White the continuing existential threat posed by the military-industrial complex—and what needs to be done about it.