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Socialist politics, a displaced feature of the international scene

One picketer’s sign riffed on Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book, which HarperCollins publishes. “Where the Wild Things Are Underpaid,” it read, with drawings of Max’s sailboat and one of the monsters he encounters.

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The crisis of education in the United States presents not only a danger to American democracy, but also the ideological and structural foundations for the emergence of a fascist state. Florida's Ron DeSantis view of education as propaganda factories

If the Democrats hope to avoid disaster in this November’s elections, they need to do a far better job making their case to working-class voters. The nation added 8.9m jobs during Biden’s first 18 months in office

To challenge the GOP and corporate media narrative on inflation, start with exposing the underreported causes, identifying those exploiting rising prices, describing why the conservative fix of jacking up interest rates will cause far worse pain

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol presented overwhelming evidence — nearly all from Trump loyalists — that Trump committed at least two federal crimes, as well as criminal offenses in the state of Georgia.

This new book is a contribution to our understanding of the last half century of both U.S. and global economic policy.

Wins for Amazon and Starbucks workers shows labor movement surging after years of decline – but pushback has been fierce.

We are stumbling — seemingly oblivious — into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it’s not here