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Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same.

Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.

The real headline of this election isn’t about Trump’s victory. It’s about how the Federalist Society coalition of plutocrats and theocrats has all but completed its mission to repeal and replace the 20th Century by judicial fiat. 

"The bill could usher in repression on a massive scale," one critic warned.

¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1974), Whatever Became of William Dawson? (1934), Are You Listening, Nixon? (1969), Ornette Coleman Takes Manhattan (1959), Who Says, Crime Doesn’t Pay? (2019)

We speak with historian Robin D. G. Kelley about the roots of Donald Trump’s election victory and the decline of Democratic support among many of the party’s traditional constituencies.

In this year’s election, voters given the opportunity to weigh in directly on questions of economic justice showed policy preferences far more progressive than those reflected in many national and state election outcomes.

A review of the new film 'American Coup: Wilmington 1898,' which premieres November 12 on PBS.

The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”