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“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it today by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

Since United Auto Workers union members struck the Big Three automakers, GOP candidates have confirmed that the party of Eisenhower is now the party of unreconstructed reactionaries.

Labor historians said they could not recall an instance when a sitting president had joined an ongoing strike, even during the tenures of ardent pro-union presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood and publishing.

We’re neutral in any war, not because we don’t believe there is an occupation, but because many of the countries of Latin America have suffered invasions by the same countries that today are extending an invitation to reject the invasion of Ukraine.

Rat infestations, blocked fire exits, expired kids’ food, machete-wielding and watermelon-throwing shoppers and other nightmares at the biggest dollar chain in the US.

Popcorn’s path to ubiquity is marked by the same milestones that we associate with the development of culture—from notable technological advancements to the tension between colonization and repatriation.

September sat down with Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, to discuss the history of neoliberal and libertarian ideas, the war in Ukraine and the state of the left-wing movement

"Netanyahu made clear with his little map today what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine... from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes," one critic said.

Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)