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This article concludes our 4-part series, Defying the Odds: How Southern Workers Organize, a co-production of NPQ & the LIFT Fund. In this series, authors share some ways how workers are successfully organizing & why these efforts merit support.

Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement. Or else grovel before a mafia boss.

“In his pursuit of the life promised by the American dream, Brother Kilmar was literally helping to build this great country. What did he get in return? Arrest and deportation to a nation whose prisons face outcry from human rights organizations."

ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

Last year was a bad one for incumbent political parties and for women. One country, however, bucked all these trends: Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum, won the presidency in a landslide.

Without enforcement mechanisms, the Biological Weapons Convention risks leaving the world “completely unprepared”

In an interview, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain argues that the era of “free-trade” deals like NAFTA has been a disaster for the US working class and that smart tariffs can help bring back good auto jobs.

While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.

A president who bullies Congress kowtows to the bond market.