In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.
Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.
The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”
In South Asia, from mass unrest to political upheaval
What “balanced” coverage covers up about Trump’s bombast and Project 2025
A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.
The firestorm financial drama offers an incisive look into this phenomenon, and into race, more broadly
Political preferences are often discussed through a one-size-fits-all middle-class lens. But empirical data shows that class significantly influences voting patterns, with growing class consciousness driving dissatisfaction with established parties.
First, what makes an individual more or less likely to identify as an atheist? Second, what makes someone more or less likely to adopt an atheistic worldview over time?
There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even more power into the hands of employers.
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