Movements and parties grapple with democracy, cost-of-living and shifting power arrangements
Reinstituted rules in the U.S. House of Representatives allow members to fire federal staffers and cut programs.
Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority
Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the lesser known brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
The fight for democracy must infuse every union’s mission. If it does not, then the very survival of both democracy and the union movement will be imperiled.
A newly Democratic state government votes to restore some democracy in the workplace.
We should expect an intensification of Russian economic involvement and arms exports to African nations struggling with conflict, many dealing with wars that have their roots in Western colonial partition and displacement.
“The US labor movement is largely unprepared for—if not downright skittish about—taking up the question of how to contest a fundamental assault on democracy.”
A top-down society is extremely brittle. Vertical control is easier; it eliminates the need to convince anyone. But it is far less effective. The number of errors and the cost of correcting them increase sharply.
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