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Donald Trump’s trade war with China will mean more money for shareholders and fewer US jobs in manufacturing. This is not a good story for the country’s workers
The inequality in who the disaster affected was then amplified in the recovery process, with black and Hispanic respondents more likely than their white counterparts to report being unable to access needed aid of any kind
Prime Minister Abadi has been left with little choice but to leave his post, but it is likely to mean little in a system that favors political stalemate
Bargaining between health care giant Kaiser Permanente and a new union alliance representing 38,000 of its employees has come down to the wire
What Happens When the Adults in the Room Are as Scary as the Crying Baby?
The only truth we can know is that the western power-elite is determined to finish the task of making its power fully global, expanding it from near-absolute to absolute
We’ve watched this stage-play so many times that it has, like so much of the West Bank, become normal.
Francois Hollande—he good man, Tells it like it is, Causing among the hypocrites Ripples, pop, and fizz. The shard of truth holds its edge Against the battering rams Of power, pelf, and dissembling, And the awesomeness of names. “Men, little men,” wrote the bard, “Dressed in a little brief authority,”— How they crash Read more…
Black leaders must devise strategies to educate, motivate, inspire and energize millions of unregistered, improbable Black voters to burst into the arena to become the cornerstone of progressive coalitions
More needs to be fought for – more colleges, more imagination – the natural disorder of youth, a yearning for a world without want
New polling has found that inserting climate change into other popular demands can make them even more popular
Here are some questions that should be asked, until answered
Students across the United States now face the perverse and dangerous situation where the most senior federal official entrusted with protecting their civil rights may use his position to press for their criminal prosecution
Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcommandante Marcos
If nothing is done to address the problem, the number of people worldwide that the World Bank estimates will be driven to extreme poverty by climate change and related extreme weather events: 100 million
The Real Confrontation Is Yet To Come There has been a spate of articles recently on the ten year anniversary of the financial collapse. We wrote about this anniversary two weeks ago, describing the cause of the collapse and the reasons why we are still at risk for another one. Now, we look at how Read more…
Skyrocketing debt, Wall Street deregulation, a fraying social safety net, and a diminished dollar could soon leave the United States looking like Greece
When it comes to immigration and refugees, Mexico’s progressive president elect, Andres Lopez Obrador, has more in common with US president Donald Trump than you’d expect
Complex stories are reported to a cult-like formula of bias, hearsay and omission: Brexit, Venezuela, Russia, Syria
Raymond “Boots” Riley, director of the new film Sorry to Bother You, sported a big Afro after it went out of style and before it came back. He called himself a revolutionary when it was politically incorrect. For three decades he has read, written, spoken, worked, organized, studied, taught, directed, acted, organized, partied, parented, made Read more…
Green Party candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in New York, explain how their campaign is aiming to raise expectations that have been systematically lowered by the state’s Democratic Party leaders
Does the British Labour Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, have an “anti-Semitism problem,” or has the Party’s left wing been targeted by the Israeli government?