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Boston-area students on at least five college campuses pitched tents as part of Palestine solidarity encampments.

Italy’s center-left parties are right to call Giorgia Meloni’s planned constitutional rewrite a power grab. But after years under governments with little popular mandate, many Italians are ignoring these parties’ claim that democracy is under threat.

The Wall Street Journal presented Jamaal Bowman's loss as "voters reject[ing] his antagonistic progressive politics," and the rest of the establishment press took the same line.

Marine Le Pen’s allies celebrated a major advance in the opening round of France’s elections. Emmanuel Macron’s snap election gamble was a miscalculation — but the far right’s rise is also a product of his whole presidency.

"The private insurance companies have ripped off taxpayers to the tune of more than half a trillion dollars."

The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable…

Originally published in the German journal Widerspruch, Arman Spéth interviews John Bellamy Foster about the growing interest in degrowth thought and the importance of incorporating democratic…

Democratic leaders did not tell members to vote against an amendment to block the State Department from citing Gaza’s Health Ministry.

An Israeli spy software tech firm licenses web surveillance tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The software contract shows new details about this sensitive technology DHS has used to spy on activists during the last several years.

Over 10 percent of the population of the Philippines works overseas, sending back remittances that are crucial to the country’s economy. A new book outlines how the Left won this demographic — only to soon lose it.

Political preferences are often discussed through a one-size-fits-all middle-class lens. But empirical data shows that class significantly influences voting patterns, with growing class consciousness driving dissatisfaction with established parties.

Despite ample reporting on extreme weather events, a majority of news outlets still did not link these events to their cause: climate change.

Since the Paris Agreement, megabanks have invested $6.9 trillion in fossil fuels…

On Friday, Israel bombed areas in Gaza that it had designated as “safe zones” for refugees. It was the beginning of a weekend of wanton killings of Palestinian civilians — enabled by the US’s continued supply of weapons to Israel.

This week, Amazon drivers organized with the Teamsters in Skokie, Illinois, went on strike over the company’s violations of labor law. The workers are demanding Amazon recognize and bargain with their union.

Disease from megafarms has killed millions of wild birds and mammals…

Whatever you think of the New York congressman, no election should look like this.

For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California illegally sharing drivers' location data with anti-abortion states, putting abortion seekers and providers at risk of prosecution. We thus applaud the Sacramento County Grand Jury for hearing this call and investigating...

Endowments are meant to insulate universities from politics. But far from being apolitical, the arrangement prioritizes the whims of the market, the authority of financial experts, and the preferences of donors over the concerns of students and faculty.

In this year's Democratic primary, neither side could dislodge the other.

Historian John Ghazvinian on the long pattern of tragic lost opportunities for mutual understanding and diplomacy.

Sources close to Imran Khan say he blames top Pakistani general Asim Munir for assassination attempts and cover-ups.

The deal shows how eager the US government is to both save face and remain a threatening force against investigative reporters.

On this public News Brief, we are joined by author and historian Jeff Schuhrke to discuss labor's response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the history of union support for (and opposition to) U.S.-le

3°C jump in 2023; emissions budget shrinking fast…

Unequal epidemics, biotech in Africa, capitalist greed, climate history, fracking…

"That's one of the tricks that the dollar stores play on people, is that they actually are getting poor value and usually paying more in a per ounce or per pound basis."

"A good practice for the press would be to explain to their readers and to their viewers that what is coming from the right is totally false, that they are creating these conspiracy theories and this theory of politicized persecution for their own benefit."

Attacked in the field, in the office, and at home, Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than any other conflict on record.

Police in Minnesota are buying and flying more drones than ever before, according to an annual report recently released by the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Minnesotan law enforcement flew their drones without a warrant 4,326 times in 2023, racking up a state-wide expense of over $....

In the last four years, state legislatures in at least 28 states have taken up proposals to roll back child labor protections; 12 states have passed such laws.

Atlanta’s Democratic leadership is trying to build a massive police urban-warfare training facility before the public can stop it. The outcome will set a precedent for the political future, with implications well beyond the city itself.

This week, the NLRB handed down its first Cemex order against Station Casinos in Las Vegas, which engaged in heavy-handed union busting before workers lost a vote to unionize. The ruling may force the casino chain to bargain with the union anyway.

Contrary to critics' focus on gender, the film's central premise functions as a metaphor for neurodivergence in general and autism in particular.