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Adam Hochschild’s new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists started a strike at noon on Tuesday, following unmet demands from the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh that the company "end its illegally declared impasse to contract negotiations" and return to the bargaining table.

In her defense of voting rights, Jackson brilliantly turned the tables on the right by crafting her own originalist argument to defend taking race into account when drawing district maps.

When you compare Trump’s cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has swindled out of the American working class and given to the top 1 percent since 1980, Trump looks like a piker

US justifications for intervention ignore the ways in which Haiti has rarely, if ever, been allowed to manage its own affairs

Our classrooms are not sites of demoralized children who hate themselves and their country. Students are hungry for explanations — real explanations — for the world they have inherited.

Snowflake, Los Espookys, and other media breakthroughs you should know about

Don’t Worry Darling and Barbarian want us to remember gender is scary.

Backed by faith communities, the housing justice movement is racking up wins against landlords and banks profiting off of what should be a human right.