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An excerpt from Tom Engelhardt's new book, Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World.

Despite intense crackdowns, activists on the Japanese island of Okinawa continue to resist the construction of new US military bases.

Love the important people in your life not in spite of their flaws but because of them.

Kansas election overseers are grappling with a new kind of dark money.

We can learn a lot about the future of culture wars from a “movement” of video game players angry about efforts to make gaming more welcoming for women.

Private prisons hold only 8 percent of the US prison population. But for-profit companies have other ways of profiting from incarceration in local jails and state prisons.

The jobless recovery means massive speedups for many workers you depend on.

Globalized techno-capitalism will own the future when it totally owns the spin-making machinery.

Statistics show that roughly half of all workers, predominantly low earners, have yet to set aside a single retirement dollar.

In her new book, ‘Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power,’ Susie Day uses wit and humor to critique contemporary politics.