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Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Diversity Not a Compelling Interest; Pay The Writers (And Actors); Outrage Over Medicaid Purge; German Left; Remembering Gus Newport; Charlene Mitchell; Cartoons; more....

European insights – Who votes for the left, and why?

A planet haunted by democratic upheavals

The fight for women's lives and liberation is everywhere and addresses everything!

The new head of the Party of the European Left discusses democracy as a strategic goal

If poor and low-income Black, white, and Hispanic Texans turn out and stand together, they could change the outcome of Texas's gubernatorial race. They could shift the terrain — in Texas and every state that's playing politics with people's lives.

The right raves, the people respond

Reader Comments: Kidnapping Immigrants; Railroad Workers and Railroad Profits; Religion; Ukraine War; Sweden; My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich; New Book: Frank Emspak, Troublemaker; The Worker-Led Upsurge: Amazon and Starbucks; more

Massachusetts lawmakers are urging the Treasury Department to investigate Florida governor DeSantis for "effectively using Covid-19 relief to score political points by exploiting vulnerable immigrants."

What happened to Angola, and other reports from a burning world