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Why some rope knots hold better than others.

Rising rents, health care and other living costs mean that for many entering their retirement years, balancing the household budget can be a struggle.

While Marx never devoted a specific work to a discussion of life after capitalism, his distinctive critique of the central realities of capitalism is far more liberatory than has generally been appreciated.

It was only with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the Rwanda genocide (1994) that it became more than apparent that another wave of ethnic cleansing and ethno-nationalist regimes were unfolding.

There’s always a tweet — or six or seven

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They're lying to distract from impeachment. They're lying to get us to war. They're lying to shore up reelection. Don't buy any of it."

The killing of Soleimani could be for the Middle East what the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 was for Europe.

People can be organized in two ways: right-wing populism prone to xenophobia, demonization, and magical thinking or as a class, held together by solidarity and conscious, purposeful action. The socialist project is to turn the mass into a class.

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