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In recent memory, the prospect of a president preventing congressional elections from taking effect has been unimaginable. But today, it is not at all hard to imagine that this could happen.

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

Internationalism on the rise

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.

Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.

Here’s What Never Arrived

Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

While Hatch Act is the focus of several complaints, one group is arguing the messages violate federal appropriations law.

Epstein and his trafficking ring of ultra-wealthy figures expose how patriarchy and oligarchy conspire to crush victims, then empower men like Trump with such staggering impunity that they can become president.

Far from the image of social breakdown so often depicted in Hollywood blockbusters, every disaster survived deepens a community’s knowledge of itself. It reinforces and strengthens the relationships people can actually rely upon.