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Broadcasters play a propaganda role as does print media such as the Guardian. An example was the [1984] Miners’ Strike. TV presented “picket-line violence," while those involved saw police violence. Another example was the attack on Jeremy Corbyn.

Here’s why you’ve been hearing so much about ChatGPT.

New England is warming more quickly than almost anywhere else on Earth.

Different cultures have important rules, traditions and customs that reveal interesting things about them.

The number of strikes in 2022 increased significantly from 2021.

For many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.

Ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass. More than sufficient evidence exists of Donald Trump assisting or aiding and comforting a violent attack on the United States.

This month, around 300 workers at four Microsoft-owned video game studios across the US are voting on whether to unionize. Jacobin spoke to workers involved in the effort about their organizing and why they want a union.

The second season of The White Lotus, HBO’s propulsive satire, had sex on the brain more than anything else. But it never lost sight of the razor-sharp class critique that also animated season one.

It is not too late for Biden to use the full powers of his presidency to confront employers who force workers to choose between protecting their health or retaining their jobs — and to challenge them in other matters as well.