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Orwell As Advocate for Workers and Against Exploitation

Mark Satta The Conversation
That George Orwell, famous as the author Animal Farm and 1984, came to his ideas about freedom via his thinking about work, poverty and democratic socialism, among other themes, may surprise those familiar with only his dystopian fiction

This Week in People’s History, Aug 27-Sep 2, 2025

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The cover of the 1950 Red Channels blacklist-promoting pamphlet
Show-Business Witchhunters Hit Paydirt (1950), Jim Crow Justice, Ugly as Sin (1955), Los Angeles Deputies Sow Deadly Chaos (1970), Like a Rolling Stone (1965), What’s In a Name? (2015), This Land Is Your Land . . . (1945), Familiar Sentiments (1945)

The Crypto State

Ramaa Vasudevan, Daniel Finn Jacobin
The Trump White House has helped install the ticking time bomb that is cryptocurrency directly into our economy. When it blows up, the damage will be catastrophic.

PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids

Lucy Dean Stockton Jacobin
Right-wing media outlet PragerU is known for its misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. The operation is increasingly seeking to reach children, hoping to fill the Sesame Street–sized hole left by the defunding of PBS.

The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Co

Sunday Science: Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

Mark Blyth, Daniel Driscoll Project Syndicate
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to ensure that fossil fuels remain dominant in the energy mix of the twenty-first century. If it succeeds, the short-term returns to the US will be huge; but the long-term damage to the planet will