Politics
Dem hopefuls unite on impeachment, spar on Medicare-for-All
October 16, 2019Three of the congressional “Squad” members, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, endorse Bernie Sanders.
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Conservative law firm pushes for massive voter purge in Wisconsin
October 16, 2019More than a quarter-million voters in Wisconsin identified as having moved could be made ineligible to vote before next year’s presidential primary election.
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Thirty years later the Berlin Wall is again being “remembered”
October 15, 2019Why does the right wing all around the world continue to beat up on the long-gone German Democratic Republic (East Germany)?
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Keep me in your heart: Race and class politics in the Trump era
October 15, 2019Many white people have constructed a working-class identity resting primarily on their whiteness. Instead of a democratic alliance of all people in the face of corporate dominance, many seem to want control over the advantages of...
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Montgomery, Alabama has first Black mayor in its two-century history
October 11, 2019A historic election victory in Alabama this week shows that the “worst of times” in American politics can, if the people rise up, also become the “best of times.”
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