Today a jury found ex-president Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to subvert the 2016 election. Trump called it a rigged trial, by a corrupt judge. He also called the 2016 and 2020 elections rigged.
"It is a day of resistance and demand," said trade groups that organized the action "in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living wage."
Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around solidarity with Gaza.
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
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.
This book analyses social movements around the world that engage with democracy-driven or participatory governance.
A political party that shamelessly spreads election denialism is capable of worse.
Don’t make the mistake of associating gangs like Haiti’s with a “primitive” stage of political development or only with countries on the geopolitical margins. What’s happening there today could prefigure the future of the United States, too.
Internationalism and democracy
If fascism—or even just an authoritarian regime—does happen here in November, it may look surprisingly familiar. The current Supreme Court is likely to go along with whatever bald-faced violation of constitutional norms Trump orders...
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