THE BRAZEN seizure of Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, and subsequent military advance by insurgents operating under the banner of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has detonated a ...

The 2018 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of U.S. “democracy” and the two-party system, it ...

Todd Chretien makes the case that remaining independent of the two mainstream parties is necessary for building an effective struggle. "TERRORIST!" "KILL him!" "He's an Arab." "Obama Bucks.

Mike Davis, whose 2006 book The Monster at Our Door warned of the threat of a global bird flu pandemic, explains how globalized agribusiness set the stage for a frightening outbreak of the swine ...

In 1967, Martin Luther King published a book called Where Do We Go from Here? that set out a proposal for "Phase Two" of the movement. THIS YEAR, the holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Hal Draper was a 20th century American socialist whose political life spanned the two great eras of upheaval in the 1930s and 1960s. Draper is best remembered today as an author on Marx and ...

Barack Obama claims that he is winding down the U.S. war on Afghanistan--already the longest in American history. But a closer look at the plan he unveiled during a surprise visit to Afghanistan ...

Nicole Colson cuts through the media hype surrounding the latest study of Iraqi deaths at the hands of the U.S. invasion. THE MAINSTREAM media are trumpeting a new report in the New England ...

Christina Bergmark looks at the reasons why a mass Black nationalist movement arose in the early 20th century around the vision put forward by Marcus Garvey. IT'S NOT difficult to see why, at ...

Samantha Valente debunks the myths that corporations and politicians use to oppose raising the minimum wage from its pitifully low levels. THE FIGHT to raise the minimum wage in the U.S. has been ...

MENTAL HEALTH has become a huge issue in the media in recent months, with Theresa May unable to escape questions about it during the election, and with Prince Harry and a host of celebrities ...

SOME 5,000 Kentucky students, unionists, social justice activists and others rallied at the state Capitol building in Frankfort on April 13 to stand up for public education. Shutting down schools ...