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‘Diplomacy, not murder, is the best path forward,’ said Bernie Sanders. Here’s how to make that happen.

After all, writing one’s own history, too, is an act of emancipation.

Joe Biden’s likely nominee to head the powerful Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, called for cuts to Social Security, saying, “we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes.”

As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying.

Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything, and everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution.

I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.

How France responded when a right to post was taken away. Holiday gift scams, Substack, the Huawei war, and more.

People making power, challenges to center-left heads of state, new developments in Nigeria and Namibia, Engels at 200, and more

Biden has, at times, seemed sympathetic to Republican arguments to increase the age of retirement as a way to keep Social Security solvent and to modify how benefits are calculated adjusting for inflation -- maybe resulting in lower benefits.

My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.