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Healing the dual miseries of COVID-19 and economic insecurity requires relief sufficient to ensure that all individuals, their families and their loved ones can live through this pandemic. The time to go big is now.

Congress should immediately pass the Wall Street Tax Act,(A Financial Transaction Tax - FTT), which would tax the sort of high-speed trading that has turned the financial sector into a casino at the expense of our communities.

Texas brought this crisis on themselves by insisting on operating their own power grid that doesn’t connect with others; by failing to do anything to make the grid more resilient; by creating a political system that is controlled by power and money.

Essential workers prepare international strike on Women's Day, and more reports from popular movements and left parties

This new novel is a tale of union organizing, class struggle, and romance.

Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Workers at fast-food restaurant chains in 15 cities around the US went on strike on Tuesday demanding a raise in their minimum wage to $15 an hour.

More than ever, many entrenched Democrats are worried about primary challenges from the left. Such fears are all to the good.

Capitalism stands naked before the world, and other news