Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today’s working class for what it really is.
To win meaningful gains for working people, Democrats first need to win elections with the coalition they have.
With hundreds dead and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting broke out in mid-May, the crisis in the Philippine city of Marawi has underlined not only the brutality of the Duterte regime, but the shortsightedness of its “leftist” collaborators.
As organized labor searches for a viable strategy to endure and grow, its limited footholds in American higher education are coming loose.
In his quietly devastating book Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge argues that all Americans, not just the ones who pull the trigger, are complicit in gun violence.
Ronan Burtenshaw joins us to discuss last week’s election upset and what’s next for the UK left.
Georgia Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel’s admission that she doesn’t support a “livable wage” is only a candid statement of the mainstream GOP position.
Javier Valdez was the sixth journalist murdered in Mexico so far this year. What will it take for his killers to see justice?
How did private insurance companies come to control U.S. health care—and make our coverage the most expensive in the world?
Labour fared much better in Thursday’s election than many had predicted—myself included. But to win decisively in future, it still has work to do.
Putting both the Conservatives and the pundit class to shame, Labour’s impressive gains in yesterday’s election show that a left alternative is still possible.
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