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Center Left Props Up Emmanuel Macron’s Austerity Coalition
French premier François Bayrou forced approval of his 2025 budget this week, using a special constitutional power known as Article 49.3 to adopt two financing packages without a vote by the lower...
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The Five Star Movement Turns to the Left, Belatedly
Following last June’s European Union (EU) elections, Italy again has a party in the EU-wide Left group. This presence owes not to one of the many parties of Italy’s postcommunist diaspora but to the...
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Remember What Audre Lorde Told Us: The Oppressor Doesn’t Determine What’s True
Since Donald Trump came to power for the second time in the United States, the attacks on all of our intersecting communities have been raining down fast and hard. The current Trump administration has...
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What Happened Here
I know there’s a lot of news and it’s very difficult to parse it all, but today I’m going to provide a rough and necessarily oversimplified interpretation of the present moment that relies on stylized...
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Shut the US Down Before Fascist Consolidation
Yesterday my wife and I and a friend drove to downtown Springfield for a rally against Trump, organized by Indivisible – a grass roots group focused on local protest movements. We had heard that...
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The Real Reason Israel is Banning UNRWA, and What It Means for Millions of...
The fate of the UN agency responsible for providing relief to Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is left uncertain after an Israeli law banning the organization from working in Israel came into effect last...
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What If We Ran The Economy?
Can you imagine libraries of tools, clothing, and even housing? The library economy can be the bridge to an entirely new world of human flourishing. Let’s explore what the library economy is, what may...
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We Are Stronger Than We Think
The Trump-Musk administration has moved rapidly, ruthlessly and often illegally to consolidate authoritarian control and empower billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. In an administrative...
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Will the Current Musk Coup Define Our Future?
A classic coup d’état has guns. Uniformed men run wild seizing government agencies and claiming control over what government does and who government serves. But in our new cyber age, the Yale historian...
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Right Wing Authoritarianism and Liberal Illusions
As Donald Trump unconstitutionally allows Elon Musk to attempt to radically reshape the federal government along lines more congenial to Musk’s personal business interests ,some observers have sought...
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War Unites Us in Hell
“Some experts worry that, if the country went to war, many reserve units might be unable to deploy. A U.S. official who works on these issues put it simply: ‘We can’t get enough people.’” “Vietnam...
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The Improbable Resurgence of Die Linke
When former Die Linke leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her supporters quit to form their own party in October 2023, both sides of the split seemed confident that they would be the main beneficiaries. Her...
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Who is Behind Trump’s Intimidation of South Africa?
The world underestimated how extreme Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are. His authoritarian domestic actions and blatant extortion and disregard for other countries’ sovereignty as demonstrated in...
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Exxon is Quietly Planning a New $8.6 Billion Plastics Plant in Texas
Diane Wilson had heard rumors for months that Exxon might be coming to Point Comfort, Texas, which sits on the Gulf Coast south of Galveston. She recalls whispers about the global behemoth hiring local...
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As Trump Attacks Federal Labor Protections, How Can States Protect Workers?
What can state advocates, state-level labor agencies and state legislatures do to preserve and advance labor protections for workers in the face of the anti-worker actions being handed down from the...
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Students Remain at the Forefront of the Struggle for a More Just, Less...
Last spring, campuses across the country became flashpoints of anti-war resistance, as thousands of students mobilized in a powerful demonstration of moral conscience and collective action. Their...
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How We Make Progress Now
We’re a week in, and the Trump blitzkrieg has had its desired effect—everyone is stunned by the sweep and depth of the cruelty and silliness on display, bludgeoned into a kind of fish-faced silence...
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Escaping the Trap of ‘Realism’ and ‘Utopianism’: Towards Programmatic Synthesis
[T]he strongest and most efficient of megamachines can be overthrown[…] The collapse of the Pyramid Age proved that the megamachine exists on a basis of human beliefs, which may crumble, of human...
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The Worst Fear of the Ruling Class in this Country
I do not often find myself in the habit of thanking Elon Musk, but he has done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that we have made for years — and that is the fact we live in an oligarchic...
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Unionized Grocery Workers Are a Sleeping Giant
In the first six months of 2025, grocery contracts covering over 130,000 union workers are set to expire. The contracts span five states, a dozen local unions, and several employers — namely the...
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