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July 14, 2026
Monitor Amok!
The federal court–appointed official overseeing the UAW is taking sides in the union’s upcoming presidential election.
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July 13, 2026
Can American Economics Change?
A business school professor and storied investor says it now has to prioritize the national interest. That’s a start, but nowhere near enough.
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July 9, 2026
The Un-Mysterious Case of the Socialist Surge
The solution is hiding in plain view.
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July 7, 2026
Commies EVERYWHERE!
Can you generate a red scare absent actual reds?
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July 3, 2026
Benjamin Franklin, Champion of the Wealth Tax
When public needs were great, he wrote, its claim on the ‘superfluous’ property of the rich was strong and just.
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June 30, 2026
The Court Equivocates on Whom to Deport
Birthright citizenship appears to be OK, but refugees from ‘shithole countries’ gotta go.
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June 29, 2026
A Bad Week for Billionaires
Losing New York to socialists, facing a wealth tax election in California—our oligarchs begin to suspect that Americans may not like them very much.
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June 25, 2026
Trump Day at the Supreme Court
The right-wing justices repeatedly ruled Trump’s way today—just possibly, to soften him up for an anti-Trump ruling still to come.
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June 19, 2026
Why Cities Go Socialist
Here comes a generation of DSA big-city mayors.
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June 16, 2026
AWOL in the Class War
Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.
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June 15, 2026
Trump and Bernie Agree: Let’s Own AI!
One’s a narcissist, the other’s a socialist, but there’s room for all in this improbable coming together.
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June 11, 2026
Trump and Putin: When Delusional Idiots Go to War
Two autocrats staffed by craven yes-men assumed that Iran and Ukraine were theirs for the taking.
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June 9, 2026
ICE Raids at World Cup Games? A Los Angeles Union Says, No Way!
The L.A. local of hotel and restaurant workers settles a contract dispute, but reserves the right to strike if ICE appears at Friday’s kickoff.
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June 8, 2026
Encircling the Royalists
Democrats finally show up to the class war.
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June 4, 2026
How a Pro-Worker Bill May Advance in the House
Seven Republicans have joined every House Democrat to bring pro-union legislation to the floor next week.
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June 2, 2026
How California Politics Became So Blah
The only truly passionate players in today’s election appear to be the corporate moguls funding the anti–Tom Steyer campaigns.
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June 1, 2026
The California Governor’s Race That Didn’t Happen
Progressive economics has swept the Democratic base, but the jungle primary has kept it from emerging in force in this crucial contest.
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May 28, 2026
Now There Are Five
Ken Paxton’s Texas primary victory puts another Republican Senate seat in play, alongside those of North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, and Alaska.
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May 26, 2026
In Massachusetts Today, Uber and Lyft Drivers Went Union
Under a recently enacted state law, independent contractors can bargain collectively—and now, they will.
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May 25, 2026
How Gov. Spanberger Betrayed Virginia’s Workers
After failing to gut a bill that legalized collective bargaining for state and local government workers, she opted to veto it.
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May 21, 2026
Tom Steyer’s Problem
Even as Mark Zuckerberg is now funding a pro-Becerra PAC, Steyer lacks the only two endorsements that could actually help him.
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May 19, 2026
Goyim on the Grass, Alas
The idolatry of the Christian nationalist Mall meetup
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May 18, 2026
Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics
A new law makes clear that corporations derive their powers from states, and they don’t necessarily include the right to spend on elections.
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May 14, 2026
How Trump Can Actually Believe We’re in a Golden Age
Does anyone he encounters dare to dispute his delusions?
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May 12, 2026
The Court’s Ruling Unleashed a Torrent of Race-Based Pro-White Gerrymandering
In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.
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May 11, 2026
China’s Best Friend? Donald Trump!
Our backward-looking president has dismantled our scientific supremacy and forced allies to view China as the more reliable hegemon.
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May 7, 2026
The Court Didn’t Just Disenfranchise Blacks. It Also Disenfranchised Cities.
The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.
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May 4, 2026
How Inequality Killed the Affordable American Car
Given the upward redistribution of wealth and income, it now pays a company to sell just to the rich.
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April 28, 2026
Objective News Coverage? Not on the Ellisons’ Watch!
With their mega-purchase up for administration approval, they compelled CBS News to honor Trump last week.
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April 27, 2026
The Warner Bros. Sale to the Ellisons Illustrates Perfectly Why Shareholder Capitalism Is a Disaster
99 percent of the company’s institutional shareholders voted to approve it. An equivalent share of the company’s workers and Hollywood generally opposed it.
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