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In an interview, Alexa Aviles discusses her history of education organizing, recent billionaire-funded scaremongering attacks against her, and why she’s running for City Council from South Brooklyn as part of a citywide socialist slate.

How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

The peculiarly American characteristics of the Trump years have blinded us to the spread of this radical disorder worldwide.

Lizzie Borden’s restored and rereleased radical feminist movie is as scrappy and smart as it was in 1983. It's a fantasy about how 10 years after peaceful revolution a supposedly socialist state rules.

Media regulation — who, which, when, how? Also Ransomware, BitClout and Roblox

“This is a classic example of disaster capitalism,” says Arturo Massol-Deyá, executive director of Casa Pueblo, a community-based natural resources conservation and sustainable development group.

“It’s been quite the roller coaster of a historical period to be having an organization called ‘Rights & Democracy,’” James Haslam said.

If the hyperbolic claims are to be believed, American workers are luxuriating in the largesse of taxpayer-funded payments, thumbing their noses at the benevolent and generous employers who are struggling to fill job vacancies.

Most Democrats in Congress are now locked into a modern Cold War mentality that endangers human survival.

The U.S. “national security” budget is still the third rail of politics in this country.