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Conservatives, the Far Right, Fascists and How We Defeat Them All
Calling out fascism alone won't defeat it. The left needs an anti-oppression strategy and popular social programs.
The Phrase “Go Back Where You Came From” Has a Long, Violent History
In 1935, the U.S. told Filipino immigrants to "go back where they came from" with the Filipino Repatriation Act.
Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
Flint Taylor's "The Torture Machine" is a personal history of the legal battle to expose Chicago's human rights abuses.
Underpaid Adjunct Professors Sleep in Cars and Rely on Public Aid
A new book argues that college teaching for most faculty has increasingly turned into a gig economy.
“Avengers: Endgame” Is a Liberal War Cry
It is through the Avengers that we see the price of political failure.
A New Socialist Movement Must Oppose Both Capitalism and Imperialism
Trump's "America First" policy is a classic divide-and-conquer strategy of capitalists and imperialists.
Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Middle-Class Guilt Trip
The terror in "Us" is not the pain of the “American Dream,” but the terror of not maintaining it.
Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy
Surveillance capitalism is doing to human nature what industrial capitalism has done to our planet.
The FBI Is the Enemy of the Left
The FBI's infiltration of the Left in the 1960s and ’70s should make us think twice about praising it.
“The Last Pig” Doesn’t Offer Any Easy Answers on Animal Farming
Allison Argo’s new documentary unravels the logic of small-scale pig farming.