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Reader Comments: Mainstream Press Covers DSA and Elections; The ‘Red Scare’: Then and Now; Todd Blanche and The Art of the Steal; Dr. Fauci;; New Howard Zinn Biography; Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes Against War, Genocide

The Times insinuates that Black and Latino activists entering primaries, canvassing voters, promoting affordability, turning out supporters in low-turnout elections is a kind of dirty trick. In other words, the Times is afraid of too much democracy.

Is Russia operating a spy base in Cuba again? Trump, Rubio and U.S. media outlets like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal all say so. But none of them bothered to go to the alleged site of this spy base. We did — and here's what we found.

Using and abusing AI

Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.

Michael Klare on AI

All too often in the fog of war, the brutality of sexual assault and rape is lost in the public eye, and bringing these abuses to light is something for which feminists have fought for decades. ...accusations have also been wielded as a tool of war

Reader Comments: Infrastructure Plan, Filibuster, Manchin, GOP; Nuclear Weapons; Backroom Attack on Single Payer; Israeli Apartheid; China; Korea; Guns, Racism and Slavery; Take Action - Stop NYT Union Busting; lots of announcements; more....