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Biden Takes Down Supreme Court Justices to Their Faces

March 8, 2024

In one of the most powerful moments of his speech, President Biden warns the Justices that they are about to learn about the political power of women in real life

Working Families Party Responds to State of the Union

March 8, 2024

Why we need to block the right and build the power of working people at the same time

This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology

March 8, 2024

The same technology that helps you rack up kills in your favorite FPS games also helps paleontologists solve million-year-old mysteries.

The IRS Files: How Billionaires Avoid Taxes

March 8, 2024

How billionaires pay little in taxes compared with their massive wealth — sometimes even nothing, explained in one minute

Eagle Pass, TX Residents Sound Off on the Real "Invasion"

March 8, 2024

Who are the real "invaders"? Michael Kosta talks to residents of Eagle Pass who have had it with right-wing media, politicians, and fearmongering Trump supporters.

March 8, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | March 8, 2024

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Eagle Pass Residents Sound Off on the Real "Invasion. " The IRS Files: How Billionaires Avoid Taxes. This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology. Working Families Party Responds to State of the Union. Biden Takes Down Supreme Court Justices.

March 7, 2024

Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Philip C. Kolin, reviewer Portside

No one is better qualified than Peter Neil Carroll to write a book of memorial poems about the valiant men and women who volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

March 7, 2024

International Women’s Day 2024: Equality at Work for Inclusive Societies and Stronger Democracies

International Trade Union Confederation

Amid rising global challenges, including the surge in populist right-wing ideologies and authoritarian governments, the global union movement stands firm in its commitment to gender equality and women’s rights.

March 7, 2024

Tidbits – Mar.7, 2024 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire Now; Mitch McConnell Water Boy for Trump; Trump Courts Teamsters; Alabama’s Embryos; Harry Belafonte Celebration of Life; Film Workers for Palestine; 1st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium; Cartoons;

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Reader Comments: Ceasefire Now; Mitch McConnell Water Boy for Trump; Trump Courts Teamsters; Alabama's Embryos; Harry Belafonte Celebration of Life; Film Workers for Palestine; 1st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium; Cartoons; more.....

March 7, 2024

Forty-Three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?

Alma Guillermoprieto The New Yorker

One night in 2014, a group of young men from a rural teachers’ college vanished. Their families have fought for answers. “I don’t have a body to mourn,” a father said of his son, one of the missing students. “I have nothing to hold that is him.”