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A planet haunted by democratic upheavals

A long-time Republican operative has come forward to spill the beans about the extensive plotting by Reagan allies to force the hostages to endure captivity for months so that voters would deny Carter a second term.

Everywhere you look this spring, you’ll find evidence that campuses are becoming sites of labor organizing and struggle.

Repealing the Paramount accords could set independent cinema back in favour of corporate giants. When larger studios can buyup properties or drive competitors out of business, that monopoly over our cultural media is truly dangerous.

Unite All Workers for Democracy, the reform caucus in the United Auto Workers, just won sweeping victories in leadership elections. Now they’re looking to transform the UAW, one of the largest unions in the country, into a democratic fighting machine.

Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.

Reinstituted rules in the U.S. House of Representatives allow members to fire federal staffers and cut programs.

Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.

Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority

Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the lesser known brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.