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The previously unseen collection, to go on display in Paris, shows how the artist taught the five-year-old to master figures, animals and birds

We never did get the permit until only a few days before the march and rally, when Koch finally understood what Sandy had been telling him for months: that hundreds of thousands of his constituents and additional hundreds of thousands of out-of-towners would be in attendance.

Even among Marx-friendly economists, the labor theory of value has fallen out of favor. But its technical validity is less important than the core message: workers are exploited because the value they create is undemocratically taken by capitalists.

Jonathan Katz on Smedley Butler and American Empire

Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants/CWA and APWU President Mark Dimondstein

LGBTQ in Africa, Ecuador ablaze, and talk of stalemate in Myanmar

Chairman Bennie Thompson's Opening Statement at Jan. 6 Hearing. Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Hearing Presentation. Filmmaker Nick Quested Recalls Documenting Jan. 6 Attack. The Janes | Trailer. Insurrectionists Experience Consequences As Jan. 6th Hearings Begin.

Piketty’s new book, “A Brief History of Equality,” is perhaps his most optimistic work. Piketty proposes a truly radical policy agenda — a universal minimum inheritance, worker control over the boards of corporations and “confiscatory” levels of wealth and income taxation — that he calls “participatory socialism.”

An explosive first hearing promised a string of revelations that could match the last time Congress checked a presidential threat to democracy.

Using the Cline Center’s Coup D’état Project definitions, we classify the storming of the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 as an attempted coup d’état: an organized, illegal attempt to intervene in the presidential transition by displacing the power of the Congress to certify the election.