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Guardian analysis shows how organizations and officers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago work against reform.

No private, unelected entity should have the power over the economy that BlackRock has, without a legally enforceable fiduciary duty to wield it in the public interest.

Facebook ad boycott, the threat of facial recognition tech, and more

Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.

Five ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

Illinois is what I would call a quasi-slave state. And what’s surprising to people is that it existed here within the law. It begins with the colonial slave laws that came from France (because Illinois was a French territory).

The reissue of Vivian Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism invites a new generation to reflect on what it means to live a life of political commitment—where the passionate pursuit of justice meets organized political action.

Marta draws up a balance sheet of the experiences of progressive governments in power at that time in South America, without sectarianism or triumphalism, and attentive to advances and contradictions.

We need to come away from the current upheavals with organization, with vision and goals, with program and campaigns that all persist and mature and strengthen rather than folding back into business as usual.