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Reader Comments: Uvalde School Shootings - Ban Assault Weapons; High Rents; Latin America Summit; Medicare Advantage; 2022 Elections; Thomas Piketty; 40 Years - June 12, 1982 Anti-Nuclear War Protests; more....

The right is winning, the center is spinning, the left's battle is just beginning

The proof is in the pudding, as they say. In this case, the pudding was very distinctly mixed up by Donald Trump with a nice little hand from Mitch McConnell. Thanks to them, the “justice” system in this country has been remarkably politicized.

Strippers fight for a union, and AIPAC goes whole hog

What liberal politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge is that crime is linked to the failures of capitalism, not to the lack of police. Indeed, police are part of the problem, not the solution.

Before copaganda became widely televised in shows like “Law & Order,” police were more accurately portrayed as abusers of power.

No holiday break for culture wars

Reader Comments: Juneteenth; Teaching About Racism being Banned; Labor and NASA; I-Hotel; Policing; Myth of 'Good Billionaires"; Global Left - new thinking and strategizing; Syringes for Cuba; lots and lots of announcements; more ...

Pride! The Linda Lindas! Critical Race Theory! QAnon! Nevada Republicans! And four Americans who talked out of turn

Battlefield Palestine rocks the world, how cold wars work, secrets of pop, and more