Everything Alleged About Lethal Injection Is a Lie

Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike’s failed execution pulled back the curtain.

Will Netanyahu Escape His Reckoning?

In his bid for reëlection, the Israeli Prime Minister is doing everything in his power to smear his opponents and evade blame for the security fiasco of October 7th.

$1.7 Billion Midterm Binge by 172 Billionaire Families

“With each passing election since the Citizens United decision, billionaires have systematically bought up our democracy.”

Make Trump Pay for Trying To Quash the Postal Service

Oversight Democrats should expose how Trump’s bastardization of USPS has hurt the American people—and present a more reliable alternative.

Global Left Midweek — October 7, 2026

Filling the streets in France and Spain

France’s Students Are Defending Their Future

The American Revolution helped inspire France’s struggle for liberty. Now, France’s students are offering Americans an example we ought to consider: A generation can defend its future together instead of being told, one person at a time, to adjust it

Injustices Persist at Delaney Hall

“That was their cry for help,” Sally Pillay, director of The Mami Chelo Foundation, “It was beautiful organizing inside which we have not seen before….that collective resistance was fundamentally what brought about the light being shined on Delaney

School of Welcome: Doors Open for Immigrant Students

Prepa 2 in Tapachula, Chiapas, has become a model of inclusive education by helping immigrant students overcome barriers, find community, and pursue their futures with dedicated educators.

The 'Cornell Seven’ and Harvard’s Claudine Gay

No one respects higher ed leaders who take cover under careful legalisms.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — October 6, 2026

Americans like socialism after all
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Culture

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Snow Globe Palimpsest

Shaul Magid Los Angeles Review of Books
Benjamin Moser delivers biographical sketches of Jews who refused to abandon the Diaspora.

food

Food Stamp Catastrophe

Natalie Pattillo The Bittman Project
A distribution station of the Food Bank for New York City, 2025 In the wealthiest country on earth, we are experiencing a human-made nutrition crisis. Since H.R.1 (House Resolution) passed in July 2025, an estimated 5 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost SNAP benefits.

poetry

[to be crippled means to be institutionalized]

Jennifer Bartlett
Connotation. Denotation. Few words have as many meanings as the word "cripple." Poet Jennifer Bartlett, a longtime disability justice activist, unpacks some of them for us.

books

The Elusive Harold Cruse

Paul Buhle Portside
Reviewer Buhle explores a new biography of one of the most important and controversial Black intellectuals of the 1960s.

Labor

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Federal Workers Notch Win Against Illegal RIFs

Whitney Curry WimbishAmer The American Prospect
Organized labor won a major victory last month in a settlement ordering the Trump administration to announce that it has abandoned its attempt to illegally fire millions of federal workers.

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Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign Lit a Spark Beyond Elections

Eric Blanc Jacobin magazine
Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four.

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It’s Time To Boycott Starbucks

Lisa Watson Inequality.org
Organizers with Starbucks Workers United have been trying to get a contract finalized for five years. Enough is enough.

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Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement

Adam D. K. King Convergence
Mark Carney wants to make Canada a destination for global investment. His new omnibus bill casts the right to strike as an obstacle to the “national interest” — and organized labor as a barrier to national strength rather than its foundation.

Friday nite video

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Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

The intended meaning of this classic -- if any -- is obscure, but the lasting impact of its brooding sense of impending catastrophe, or righteous settlement of debts, is huge. Many questions about tomorrow, and no clear answers.

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The Corruption at Starlink Is Shocking

The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink.

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Anthropic IPO Documents AI Risks

Anthropic’s leaked prospectus offers a fascinating glimpse into the transition to corporate adulthood, because little AI is growing up, and adulthood comes with bills, lawyers, insurers, customers and consequences.

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Pete Hegseth Purges Weirdos and Wimps

Pete Hegseth gets the Pentagon in line with God, and appoints a very strange new Holy Trinity. Plus, Donald Trump invents a new stereotype to mark Hispanic Heritage Month. 

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The Radical Solution to our Rigged Tax Code

How exactly should we tax the rich? We lay out 3 specific ways to target and reduce the wealth gap in society, including taxing billionaires’ SuperPAC contributions.

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Naza | Documentary

Award-winning documentary, produced with the team behind the Zone of Interest and directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders