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Big Strike Wins Big (1966), Radical Idea No Longer (1866), Haiti Gives Slavery the Boot (1791), Jury’s Verdict: Freedom! (1781), Greenhouse Effect? Forget About It! (1856), Ugly Moment, Uglier War (1636), Workers Lose Big on Blair Mountain (1921)

2018 was a historic blowout for the Dems. This year, primary turnout is much higher.

“We need more depictions of women having full lives,” AOC said on Instagram, while documenting freezing her eggs. She is refusing to disappear the reality of maintaining a female body, working instead to fuse body and mind on the public stage.

Labor councils are important but often overlooked for building working-class power. This article takes us from Tennessee to Vermont to examine how these vital organizations are faring today, while honoring one of their champions, Vonda McDaniel.

Today several hundred thousand Indigenous farmworkers from southern Mexico labor in fields, not just in California, but all over the U.S. Their culture, and their political and labor activism, are changing rural communities profoundly.

As Mayor Mamdani seeks to build solidarity with the Palestinian people he should look to the example set by another activist-turned-mayor, Marion Barry. The D.C. Mayor used his office to support the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.

In 1948, a US-sponsored dictatorship in South Korea launched a brutal campaign of repression on the island of Jeju. Having killed up to 30,000 people — one islander in ten — Washington’s Korean clients covered up the evidence of the crime for decades

The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light billions of light years from Earth

Brecht criticized social injustice, denounced National Socialism and envisioned more humane, socialist society. Remembering Brecht means revisiting his insistence that art should question existing power relationships and imagine a different society.

While the overall financial well-being of most adults held steady in 2025, the financial well-being of Black adults declined, more likely to experience layoffs, and more likely to report major concerns about making ends meet.