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While ​local lawmakers obsess over how to keep Democrats in majority-Black districts from governing, their state is literally shrinking.

The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum

How the haphazard ending to the war won’t divert from the terrible path Donald Trump has led the world down.

Disgraceful, Cruel, Iniquitous War (1846), When Klan Attacks, Where's the Cops? (1961), Picketing the White House (1966), Violence Against the Left (1966), ‘A Shame to Our Country’ (1860), Lynching News Sells Newspapers (1936), Victim-Blaming (1961)

A defensible answer might be that a society serious about equality, democracy, and the finite nature of our world will, over time, make it impossible for them to arise.

In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have experienced.

Opposing all forms of imperialism

Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean.

The US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response -- What is hantavirus? -- Where did the cruise ship hantavirus come from and what happens next?

Often forgotten today, the US saw a tidal wave of rank-and-file worker militancy in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Many socialists of the era took jobs on the shop floor to help foment the upsurge and build a revolutionary movement to replace capital