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The Left Needs Its Own Foreign Policy

Tim Hirschel-Burns Convergence
Outrage at US complicity in the war on Gaza has pushed many Americans to think about international politics for the first time. The Left should seize this moment to push its vision of how the global order should run.

Who Should Own the Robots?

Paolo Natali The New Republic
AI’s displacement of workers will make it even harder to organize labor—and all the more necessary.

This Week in People’s History, Jul 15–21, 2026

Portside
CIA’s Brutal and Illegal Operation Phoenix (1971), The Class War that America Forgot (1877), Right-Wing Coup Start the Spanish Civil War (1936), U.S. Says ‘No’ to Democracy in Vietnam (1956), The Frame-Up of Alfred Dreyfus Ends at Last (1906)
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