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Supposedly the first of four films, Kevin Costner’s dull and messy Western throwback, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, is almost certainly dead on arrival.

Bang! Now what?

After organizing a stewards network, engaging in strikes, and building multiracial solidarity, workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in central England are deciding whether to form a union. Results are expected on July 17.

Jazz in Rhode Island (1954), United Against Fascism (1969), Self-Defense Works (1919), Pickets Killed by Minneapolis Police (1934), Vietnam’s Disastrous Cease-Fire (1954), Whitewash as Public Service (2004), Civil War Before the Civil War (1859)

"Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off our backs with a little bullsh*t about your responsibilities to the planet?"

Political violence should never be acceptable. But one party has winked at, enabled or outright encouraged violence time after time. The record is clear and extensive.

Marta Harnecker meant radical mass movements, not individual leftists or NGOs.

Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and departed from the previous half century’s policies favoring “free trade.”

Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterized by disagreement and controversy . . .

Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: This spotlight details the racist history of tipping, federal and state policy governing tipped work, and the experience of tipped workers in the economy—both nationwide and in the South.