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President Donald Trump’s expansion of the blockade is the latest chapter in an aggression waged by 12 successive US presidents. It’s time to close the book.

“I hope Amherst’s resolution kicks off a wave of similar resolutions in cities and towns across the state,” said the measure’s lead sponsor.

As sympathy for Palestinians grows among Democratic voters, party leaders wrestle with what comes next

The president was already doubling the budget deficit. With the high court’s tariff decision, he’s tripling it. There’s only one solution: Repeal his “big, beautiful” tax cut.

A Q&A with two founders of the 51st, a worker-led nonprofit newsroom launched after the closure of the beloved local outlet DCist.

Trump’s efforts to remove Black people from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.

London and Washington were right about the Russian invasion, but failed to persuade European powers. They underestimated Ukrainian resistance and overestimated Russian power, just as Putin had. Four years later, the war continues.

Bravely Standing Up to Nazis for What’s Right (1941), Attack on Wage Slavery Gets Rid of Tainted Meat (1906), First Step Toward a Massive Victory (1976), Expressing Unpopular Views Is Not Criminal (1961), ‘Serfdom Is a Keg of Gunpowder’ (1861)

Jackson understood the links between class/race and US foreign policy, in a way that few labor leaders do, recognizing that making these connections was essential to building a powerful workers movement in the US and beyond.

Sixty years ago, delegates from all over the world gathered in Havana for the Tricontinental Conference, forging ties of solidarity and resistance. The anniversary came last month, just as the US stepped up its aggressive campaign against Cuba.