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While world leaders remain quiet, AMLO stands alone in speaking for freedom of speech — and has offered Assange asylum in Mexico

22-year-old Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in American history

A look at a book by a Black Lives Matter Founder, Alicia Garza: The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Whether Trump will survive the error of judgment that turned major power centers against him is unclear. He may well do so

It is hard to imagine how the government’s handling of the pandemic could have been more catastrophic

Will a participatory economy be any better for the environment than capitalism?

When women fly planes and go up in space shuttles our hearts swell with pride, but when they lead protests and question, we deny them agency and express solicitude

We must not turn away. We must decry the terrible war and blockade. Doing so may help spare the lives of at least some of Yemen’s children. The opportunity to resist this massacre of the innocents rests with us.

Deep canvass conversations, storytelling, acknowledges people’s experiences while suggesting a different way to understand and respond

There is no middle ground between lies and facts. There is no halfway point between civil discourse and violence. There is no midrange between democracy and fascism

It is simply unacceptable that people should work for starvation wages

“Our communities have been fighting KXL for over a decade, tooth and nail, in the dirt and in the courts.”

Doctrines of Disaster and Dreams of Security as the Biden Years Begin

The Democrats’ victory in Georgia was a vote for cash assistance. Prioritizing direct monthly payments isn’t just good policy—it’s good politics

QAnon has developed a national social network gearing up for a holy war, ready to become fodder for its operators

One of the joys in running for and being in the United States Senate is that you can make a complete ass of yourself repeatedly without anyone noticing

The lesson of the Capitol riots is to change the power structure, not to embrace it

Trump must be held accountable for inciting insurrection by whipping up a racist and dangerous mob with lies about a stolen election. He must be prevented from endangering society by ever serving in public office again

The best way to win economic and social justice is to keep organizing and keep pushing. What can happen during the Biden presidency is up for grabs.

“The price of this failure will be paid with lives and livelihoods in the world’s poorest countries.”

This book gives a sense of what it’s like to be part of a Left organization that has big successes for a number of years but then loses steam, members, energy and its sense of direction and ultimately disappears as an organization

The DOJ inspector general’s report, issued Thursday, was silent on the morality of the Trump administration’s family separation policy

The Nazi monstrosity gave birth to a unique positive development: the Nuremberg Tribunal, the idea that all the people of the entire planet should judge and punish the Nazi-type criminals

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Apartheid is one of the listed “crimes against humanity” along with enslavement, torture, war rape, and forcible deportation. A crime against humanity is the systematic and continuous commission of war crimes

The stifling inequality engendered by capitalism takes lives, sometimes quickly and often slowly. With encampment evictions, the state punishes those being suffocated for gasping to breathe

We’ve seen young people all around the world, from Mexico to South Korea, sue their governments for negligent climate policy

It is persistently frustrating that there remains a cohort who, in the name of sober analysis, continues to downplay the obvious and escalating severity of the situation

“Beyond Vietnam” was the speech he delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated

Biden and the Democrats are thus confronted with making the same error that the Obama administration did in early 2009—not providing a sufficient fiscal stimulus to generate a sustained recovery

History suggests that it’s not making friends, but making the administration’s life difficult, that gets results for the Left

The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk

Unquestionably, the storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy

From Defensive Traits to Participatory Ego States

Legal advocates say the proposed laws will do nothing to curb white supremacist violence, and will instead grant law enforcement increasing discretion and pressure to crack down on and harshly sentence progressive activists

The new nuclear weapons are designed to not only win the arms race, but to intimidate other nations and even “win” a nuclear war

I know we can finish the work of Dr. King, together.  We must if we are to survive this terrible hate. The choice lies within each of our hearts.

Most people are simply unaware of the scale of the manipulation, and the extent to which businesses influence governments and their citizens

It’s time to stand up big pharma bullying and implement universal pharmacare so everyone can get the treatment they need

“Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?”

Over slow generations, they built a broad enough “we” and an effective bottom up force that formed not just a victorious voting block this year, but a caring community dedicated explicitly to dismantling white supremacy

Trumpism is a worldview that defines culture as a battleground of losers and winners, a world in which everything is rigged against whites

The far right has come out in support of Trump. After the failed coup attempt of January 6, what’s next?

How Contract Negotiations in 2021 Could Be Flashpoints in the U.S. Class Struggle

President-elect Biden must follow through with commitment to ban sale of public lands for fracking, put climate, justice, public lands first

Many working-class Americans, and Canadians, are falling rapidly to ‘deaths of despair,’ characterized by suicide and chronic drug and alcohol use

Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVID Vaccine

Also poisoned Biden’s well in Cuba, China, Iran

Reformers typically propose predictive algorithms and electronic monitoring as alternatives to money bail. Illinois is different

Companies’ attempts at hazard pay have been paltry and fleeting as employees are threatened for protesting working conditions