Wall Street and Silicon Valley are embroiled in a legislative slugfest over which business interests will get to fleece more of their customers’ money. A loophole under current law allows stablecoins — crypto tokens pegged...
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Minnesota appears to be in gear for a mass uprising. Unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses there are calling for a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency services), no school, and no shopping” on January...
A month before President Donald Trump renewed his calls last week to take on Americans’ crushing consumer debt by capping credit card interest rates, his administration quietly intervened in a legal battle to do the opposite....
Bolivia’s new right-wing government was forced to abandon its neoliberal reform package, pushed by executive decree, following the largest mobilization of the nation’s labor movement in at least five years. The victory of the COB...
Earlier this month, the American Historical Association’s (AHA) leadership once again overruled its own members, blocking a resolution on scholasticide in Gaza and vetoing a second resolution concerning the escalating repression of scholars in the...
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and Comptroller Mark Levine issued a dire warning last week: the previous mayor’s financial mismanagement has left New York City with a $2 billion budget gap this year and...
At the start of 2026, the White House declared that it was withdrawing from a raft of international organizations, covering areas of supposed global cooperation from education to aid to climate change. As with much...
Matthew Delmont On the Coretta Scott King side, I think one thing that’s so powerful about her story is how clear and early she was about the dangers posed by US military intervention in Vietnam,...
The United States is home to seventeen million military veterans. About 1.3 million of them currently work in union jobs, with women and people of color making up the fastest-growing cohorts. Veterans are more likely...
Is China just another case of modern industrial development? It is tempting to talk about the country’s economic and social transformation in the context of “late industrialization” in the West Pacific. After all, China’s miraculous...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ought to be a household name, given the decades she spent challenging an assortment of powerful forces, including big business, the police, politicians, and judges in her devotion to fighting for a...
Among the hills in the valley southeast of Nablus lives a community of around 28,000 Palestinians, residents of the small towns of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan. The area can be accessed through a single...
