In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.
The lessons should be obvious. Bringing police onto a college campus on the pretext of preserving or restoring “order” invariably makes things worse. It’s almost always inspired not by conditions on campus, but by partisan pressure on university adm
The United Auto Workers’ strike last fall saw the union renew its militancy and win big victories on behalf of worker control. The historic walkout suggests the possibility of a broader revival of class struggle and the ideal of economic democracy.
Newly released data from the Census Bureau points at big shifts in state representation in the House after the 2030 census.
Even the best structural reforms will not succeed without aggressive organizing.
US justifications for intervention ignore the ways in which Haiti has rarely, if ever, been allowed to manage its own affairs
Scandals once sank campaigns. Now, for many voters, winning isn’t everything—it’s the only thing.
After acquiring some of the biggest and most coveted parcels of land in Vancouver, the city’s three First Nations are becoming players in the biggest game in town — real estate.
We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.
This is the second in a series of columns looking at Left strategy today. Key to Strategy #1 focused on the first component of Sun Tzu’s dictum that to prevail in battle it is necessary to “know the enemy and know yourself.”
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