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It’s not just Graham Platner. In Maine’s gubernatorial race, logger and labor leader Troy Jackson is mounting an economic populist campaign that promises to build bridges between urban progressives and rural working-class voters.

Author Kimberlé Crenshaw says that the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court know America is not post-racial but insist on pretending that it is.

Popular Information crunches the numbers. The official accounting is at least $47 billion too low.

The decades-long strategy that gutted the middle class and then turned Americans against each other to cover it up…

Trevor Jackson traces the “dumb, inhuman logic” of endless growth over hundreds of years, and gestures at a better world.

Workers in San Diego joined global May Day demonstrations on Friday to demand better working conditions and advocate for immigrants’ rights. Rallies across San Diego County, including one at Chicano Park, drew more than 500 participants.

A May Day to remember

The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.

Billionaires are in control of both parties and working people across this country are not dumb. They are ready for populist change. How do we know this? They told us.

Plus: Why Iran won’t make a deal with Trump to end the crisis Today on Aftermath, we look at the stalemate the war has settled into and whether there’s any way out.