Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
A zone of voicelessness within the workplace is hard to contain. Lack of voice in undemocratic workplaces radiates outward to erode voice in the purportedly democratic political realm.
States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work
The postwar Second Red Scare successfully smashed the American left. But in the midst of its devastation, a small number of old leftists refused to be shut up by the climate of fear. Without their heroism, the New Left could never have emerged.
Technocrats and far rightists on the move
Tariq Ali on the Ukraine mess and the UK peace movement, and labor news from all over
A dress rehearsal for fascism, or did we just miss the opening credits?
Introducing the AI Bill of Rights, and more hot flashes from media land
Open season on protesters, but the fight to defend rights is on
The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil
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