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  • The Socialist Labor Unionists Who Took On Samuel Gompers

    Though little remembered now, at the turn of the 20th century Cleveland’s socialists heroically fought Samuel Gompers for leadership of the American Federation of Labor — putting forward a revolutionary alternative to Gompers’s conservative unionism.

  • Swing Voters Want Kitchen-Table Populism, Not a Sermon

    A new survey of 6,100 voters finds that persuadable voters respond to plain talk about rent, groceries, and corruption — and tune out when Democrats lecture them about who’s dividing them.

  • We Rely on Cleaners’ Work, So Cleaners Should Be Paid More

    Cleaning work is often called low-skilled, perhaps because it’s usually done by low-waged women. In an interview, a cleaner in the European Parliament and a hospital cleaner explain why their work should be more valued and better paid.

  • When the Market Destroys a Community

    Steelworks 80, a planned steel expansion that brought workers to northern Sweden, was derailed by a global downturn. Its story shows how communities built around the promise of investment are left with the consequences when it disappears.

  • Film Workers Should Fight for Good Movies, Not Just Jobs

    Hollywood’s unions fight for tax credits and jobs but not for the movies themselves. That has to change. Unions can take up policies that could save American cinema not only as a way to make a living but as a vital art form.

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  • Conspiracists and Supporters Collide at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial

    We went to Charlie Kirk’s one-year memorial service at the site of his death. And it was full of contradictions—conspiracy theorists colliding with diehard supporters and counter protesters. September 10 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, which sits just outside of Salt Lake City,

  • Trump’s DOJ Is Reportedly Investigating Gavin Newsom’s Travel Funding

    The Justice Department’s probe into Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is related to his international travel and how it was paid for, according to subpoenas reviewed by the San Francisco Standard in a story on Saturday.  These subpoenas were reportedly issued earlier this month and order six years of records from

  • Ted Cruz Pushed His College Sports Bill on ESPN—and Was Booed Mercilessly

    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was on the receiving end of a nearly 10-minute chorus of boos on Saturday morning ahead of the heavyweight college football matchup between Texas and Ohio State, during an interview in which he shamelessly promoted his congressional bill live on ESPN.  His proposed legislation, the Protect College Sports Act, would allow

  • Fear “the Blob”: Relentless Marine Heat Waves Threaten to Upend Ocean Life

    This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The common octopus is a warm water species that usually lives in the temperate waters of the Mediterranean. But last year, octopus larvae hitchhiked across the English Channel attached to plankton, resulting in an octopus bloom off England’s coast. This

  • The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug

    In 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next eight months, Otto grew into his own little chaotic personality. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. “ He’s laying on houseplants, he’s tearing books out of the bookshelves,

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    • Delcy Rodríguez Has a Gun Pointed at Her Head: Does She Have Options?

      Donald Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun. Just hours after the military incursion that resulted in the kidnaping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3, Trump boasted “we’re going

    • An American Tragedy: the Woeful Self-Inflicted Consequences of 9/11

      The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has resulted in a catalogue of self-inflicted disasters for the US. It was exploited by the worst elements of our political system to create a surveillance society, increase military spending, and strengthen US imperialism abroad. Those steps were taken in the name of making us

    • Fascist Fantasy Meets The Strait of Hormuz

      Fascism is the elevation of male violence – celebrated in war, hunting, martial arts, meat eating and the subjugation (via eugenics) of the weak, the disabled and the colonized. Women are reduced to, well, Natalie Harp. This hyper-masculine ideal symbolically takes shape in the person of “the leader” – even if said ruler, a ridiculous

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    • Poisoning Our Food for Profit Was Always Their Plan

      The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.

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        • How Britain Tried To Rig the Trial of a Genocide Opponent – and Lost

          The jury took just two hours. Tony Greenstein – Jewish socialist, anti-Zionist – had faced fourteen years under the Terrorism Act for three social media posts and a blog article opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Crown called it “inviting support for Hamas.” The jury called it something else. Section 12 of the Terrorism Act