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With the triumph of the far-right in Israel, the backing of “peace partners” in the Gulf, and no likely obstruction from the White House whoever its occupant, the Palestinians have become a non-issue.

“[These companies are] here in our communities, extracting from the land, extracting from our women and just leaving us to deal with the aftermath, and they’re screaming about us.”

Bernie Sanders didn’t win the 2020 election. But he may have won its aftermath. The Vermont senator discusses the Rescue Act, cancel culture, the filibuster and more.

The choice confronting the Biden administration is whether to expand an immigration program prioritizing grower profits over workers’ and immigrants’ rights, or to reinforce an immigration system based on family reunification and community stability.

All states conduct espionage but if the Biden administration responds to espionage with sabotage it will take national rivalry in cyberspace to a wholly new level of danger.

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.

To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.

Drones criss-crossing the skies and hunting for high-value targets create a distraction from actual crises afflicting people in Afghanistan. U.S. drone surveillance potentially sets the stage for criminal assassination.

If working people fail to see real material distinctions between life under Trump and life under Biden, they’ll look for an alternative to the party in power.

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