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After the Trump administration denied visas to the Iranian team, its participation in the 2026 World Cup seemed unlikely. Mexico’s decision to host the players was rooted in its shared struggle for sovereignty in the face of US aggression.

Jonathan Chait’s Atlantic essay claims the Democratic Socialists of America has betrayed the legacy of its founder, Michael Harrington. It gets DSA’s history, and what the organization is today, wrong.

Our individual, collective, and institutional identities organize us. The common view suggests that identity is a stable given. You are X or Y and nothing changes that. Not only is this view inaccurate, it limits our ability to meet coworkers where they are and makes connecting with them difficult as a result. Identity is a … Continue reading "Organizing Identities"

In his dissenting Supreme Court opinion this week, Clarence Thomas argued for a version of the idea that citizenship is a matter of ancestral lineage — a position not unlike that of Israel, which assigns citizenship on the basis of Jewish descent.

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

Americans have celebrated Thomas Paine’s Common Sense for generations. What gets lost in the fanfare is how common sense is not some eternal repository of political wisdom, but something continually reshaped by democratic debate, argument, and persuasion.

OTTAWA (TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE) – Prime Minister Mark Carney joined Alberta Premier Danielle Smith today to announce the Alberta government pipeline proposal to the federal government’s Major Projects Office for a million-barrel-a-day crude oil pipeline to British Columbia’s south coast. “The Trans Mountain expansion experience has proven that pipelines – […]

BACKGROUND: THE CASE AT A GLANCE NEW EVIDENCE: DEFENSE LAWYER’S KLAN TIES In August 2025, Rocky’s legal team filed a Rule 32 petition asking the court to overturn his conviction and grant a new trial. The petition rests on two claims: that Rocky is innocent, and that he was denied meaningful, conflict-free representation. WHERE THE […]

Nos reuniremos virtualmente (a través de Zoom) para diseñar estrategias sobre cómo podemos usar individualmente el poder de nuestras cuentas de redes sociales (a través de Facebook, X, Threads, Linkedin, […]

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By the time Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre was released in October 2025, Giuffre’s story and the larger story of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes were well known. The book was published a few months after her untimely death by suicide in April 2025. The book was… Continue reading Survival and Tragedy

BLM Issues Records of Decision for Bakersfield and Central Coast Regions, Ignoring State Health Protections and Fracking Ban BAKERSFIELD, CA — Environmental organizations across […]

The post Trump Administration Scoffs at Federal and California Law and Public Process to Hand Public Lands to Big Oil appeared first on Last Chance Alliance.

The leading black intellectual and freedom fighter W. E. B. Du Bois was a longtime committed socialist and, eventually, a Marxist — commitments that were central to his life and work. Liberals are dead set on suppressing this aspect of his legacy.

The feminist insight that personal life is political is complicated by neoliberalism, which casts political problems as matters of personal virtue. This moralization of personal conduct can displace the collective action needed to transform society.

The last of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, workhouses for “morally wayward” women, closed in 1996. Since then, the institutions’ many horrors have come to light, but misinformation has also been endemic. A new book provides a granular, factual account.

Americans used to fight for constitutional change — and not just in the Supreme Court chamber. Jill Lepore talked to Jacobin about the decline of the amendment process and the rise of judicial power.

Could democratic socialism become the brand of a new generation of political actors — not just on the fringe, not just in New York City, but across the country?

Reading the IMG- & WSL-tradition’s journal from the late 1980s, with a view to the present

Reading the IMG- & WSL-tradition’s journal from the late 1980s, with a view to the present

A new poll from Progress Michigan in partnership with Public Policy Polling shows strong support for the Michigan Water Trust Fund Act, a package of two bills long championed by Flow and introduced by Sen. Sam Singh (D-28) in May 2026. The bills (SB 950 & 951) would raise approximately $300 million annually by imposing a 25-cent... Read more »

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Palestinians from Tantura are expelled to Jordan, June 1948. Benno Rothenberg/ Meitar Collection/National Library of Israel/The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection/CC BY 4.0 MUCH ATTENTION AND controversy has surrounded the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg and its exhibit “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present.” Indeed, there was a veritable tsunami of criticism before… Continue reading The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit can serve as a site for solidarity