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State of the Union Responses from Stacey Abrams, Mandela Barnes, Bernie Sanders - full speeches and transcripts; Reader Comments: Combating BDS Act; Green New Deal; Venezuela; Strikes; Resources; Announcements; and more...

Sanders plans to introduce an estate tax plan with rates up to 77 percent. The "For the 99.8% Act," would tax the estates of those who inherit more than $3.5 million. The proposal comes after Republican senators call for eliminating the estate tax.

"Act American!"; The Kids Aren't Alright; Up From Bondage For Campaign Workers; AOC; Bernie; Shutdown Heroes

Ari Melber Interview With Four Key Mueller Witnesses. Redemption (feat Jessie Davis) – Baba Brinkman Music Video. Get Me Roger Stone | Movie Trailer. Bernie Sanders on the End of the Government Shutdown. P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo.

Its goal is to remake our economic system — and the Democratic Party. Since the 2016 election, the left’s political and cultural influence has ballooned. Membership in DSA grew exponentially during the first years of the Trump administration.

Reader Comments: Time for Federal Workers to Get Sick; LA Teachers Win!; Dr. King's Radical Internationalism; Attacks on the Women’s March; JVP - On Zionism; Time to Break the Silence on Palestine; Angela Davis Supported; Bernie Sanders; and more...

Should Bernie Sanders be the Left’s presidential candidate in 2020? Hamilton Nolan and Bhaskar Sunkara revive the great American tradition of arguing about Bernie online.

Reader Comments: Government Shutdown - Case for a General Strike; AOC and Tax Policy; Los Angeles Teachers; 2020 Elections - Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren; Sexual Harassment in Elections; Resources; Announcements; Protest Music links; and more...

Israel Anti-Boycott Act would extend "U.S. legal protection to the very settlements the U.S. has opposed as illegitimate and harmful to the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace for more than 50 years," the senators write