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The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results

What are some of the barriers to minority candidates running for/winning office?

The polling industry claims to offer live snapshots of what the public thinks. Yet the obsession with polls is reducing politics to market research.

Kansas Democrats are using ranked-choice voting for the 2020 primary election, hoping to increase voter participation and to create fairer voting systems.

In its latest dossier, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research details the forms that the hybrid war in Venezuela has taken.

Confronting the camps; Assange case; Far right raids the GOP; Naming the far right; Trump cult; Teachers take on white nationalism; Suing neo-Nazis; Knitters take a stand

We must hold these dual, overlapping realities in our minds, as we strive to comprehend the interrelated horrors to which the United States — not just Trump, but the United States — subjects millions of people every day.

The Democratic Party didn’t choose Milwaukee for its 2020 convention because of its radical past. But the city’s history shows how socialism worked in the United States—and could work again.

Alan MacLeod interviewed Noam Chomsky via Skype on March 13, 2018, for MacLeod’s new book Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent.

From a CIA coup and supporting the Shah’s brutality to enabling chemical attacks, shooting down a civilian airliner and training terrorists,‘aggression’ between the US and Iran is overwhelmingly one-sided.