A New Angle of Attack Against Trans Healthcare

Federal officials referred around 150 healthcare organizations for investigation into allegations of fraud.

US Progressives To Attend Pan-American Congress

“We need to build a durable and lasting coalition of progressives that can take on the right-wing forces and answer them with the necessary call of the people,” said Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.

MAGA Christianity and the Return of Religious Coercion

The right is increasingly embracing an anti-social version of the Christian faith that favors restrictive control with none of the underlying moral obligations.

US Military Morale Is in the Overflowing Toilet

Ann Wright says the frustration expressed by military families at a recent Veterans for Peace conference echoed those of families with relatives on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.

Media Bits and Bytes — August 18, 2026

Surveillance goes haywire

This Week in People’s History, August 19–25, 2026

NY Daily News with "Airline Strike Snarl Spreads" headline
Big Strike Wins Big (1966), Radical Idea No Longer (1866), Haiti Gives Slavery the Boot (1791), Jury’s Verdict: Freedom! (1781), Greenhouse Effect? Forget About It! (1856), Ugly Moment, Uglier War (1636), Workers Lose Big on Blair Mountain (1921)

Democratic Voters Are Fired Up

2018 was a historic blowout for the Dems. This year, primary turnout is much higher.

Ocasio-Cortez Rewrites the Rules

“We need more depictions of women having full lives,” AOC said on Instagram, while documenting freezing her eggs. She is refusing to disappear the reality of maintaining a female body, working instead to fuse body and mind on the public stage.

Mamdani and Barry: Int'l Solidarity and Local Gov't

As Mayor Mamdani seeks to build solidarity with the Palestinian people he should look to the example set by another activist-turned-mayor, Marion Barry. The D.C. Mayor used his office to support the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.

The Jeju Massacre A Hidden Crime of America’s Cold War

In 1948, a US-sponsored dictatorship in South Korea launched a brutal campaign of repression on the island of Jeju. Having killed up to 30,000 people — one islander in ten — Washington’s Korean clients covered up the evidence of the crime for decades
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Culture

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What Does It Take to Work on a Cauliflower Crew?

David Bacon The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon
Today several hundred thousand Indigenous farmworkers from southern Mexico labor in fields, not just in California, but all over the U.S. Their culture, and their political and labor activism, are changing rural communities profoundly.

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Road Sign on Interstate 5

Robert Peake
Poet Robert Peake asks us to consider what a road sign says about the lives and needs of migrants.

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Fight Hunger and Make Food More Affordable.

Ralph Palladino Submitted by the author to Portside
Given today’s challenging economic landscape and recent federal policy rollbacks, publicly run food stores are a practical, common-sense idea worth pursuing.

Labor

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A Union of Unions: Revitalizing Labor Councils

Whitney Washington Convergence
Labor councils are important but often overlooked for building working-class power. This article takes us from Tennessee to Vermont to examine how these vital organizations are faring today, while honoring one of their champions, Vonda McDaniel.

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Daimler To Close Portland Truck Plant

Don McIntosh NW Labor Press
The plant closure is a sad end to the high hopes of five years ago, when Daimler chose the Portland plant to make new electric versions of its Class 8 heavy truck and smaller box trucks.

Friday nite video

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Donavan McKinney on his Primary Upset

Donavan McKinney, Democratic nominee to represent Detroit/Wayne County in Congress, on democratic socialism, corporate money, data centers and the need for Medicare for All

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Can Baldness Be Reversed?

New research could lead to breakthroughs in how we understand how cells grow and divide… and that means a cure for /baldness/ could help us study /cancer/.

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Steal This Story, Please!

A riveting portrait of the iconic independent journalist Amy Goodman by Oscar-nominated Directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. Executive Producers Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda and Tom Morello.

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India’s Internet War

A decade after Modi’s digital-first political campaign, an internet-fueled youth movement called the Cockroach Janta Party (or the Cockroach People’s Party) is using social media platforms to organize protests