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International election observers and journalists contest claims of Venezuela...
Within hours of polls closing in Venezuela, the US began to circulate claims that incumbent President Maduro had stolen the election. There was just one problem—these claims emanated from outside the...
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‘Israel has violated the [Olympic] Charter’: Jibril Rajoub calls for IOC...
For as long as it has existed, the Olympics has shrouded itself in the language of international fraternity and peace. Yet more than 10 months into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the International Olympic...
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J.D. Vance is a creature of Silicon Valley, not Appalachia
J.D. Vance has tailored his political image to suit an all-American, blue-collar model. There’s just one problem. While the Yale-educated Vice Presidential candidate may be from Appalachia, his...
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It’s been 10 years. When will we get justice for Michael Brown?
On Aug. 9, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. Police left Brown’s lifeless body in the hot sun for four hours, plainly demonstrating the contempt of law...
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March on DNC organizers are fighting Chicago for the right to protest
Next week, from Aug. 19-22, the much anticipated Democratic National Convention will kick off in Chicago, and protestors from Chicago and around the country are preparing to descend on the DNC in full...
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The Legacy of Monroe | Under the Shadow, Bonus Episode 4
In December 1823, U.S. president James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address in which he coined what would become known as the Monroe Doctrine. It was a framework that would later be used to...
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Appalachia uprising: Why MAGA doesn’t have answers for America’s poorest region
J.D. Vance’s rise to the GOP ticket has opened up scrutiny into the junior senator’s past and roots. Before he entered politics, Vance entered the public spotlight as the author of a best-selling...
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Celebrating 300 episodes of ‘Working People’
In 2024, Working People officially crossed the 300 episode mark! Since we published our first episode back in 2018, the show has grown in ways we never could have imagined, and the world itself has...
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How French unions leveraged the Olympics to score wins for labor
There are always two sides to the Olympics: the glamor of the games broadcasted throughout the world, and the gritty reality of evictions, anti-homeless sweeps, and securitization faced by local...
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A start to the end of the strike? Feds file for temporary injunction to...
This story originally appeared in Pittsburgh Union Progress on Aug. 14, 2024. It is shared here with permission. The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday filed for an injunction seeking to have...
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Thousands of Keck-USC healthcare workers fight for fair contract
Since the start of the pandemic (and really, before that), frontline health care workers have been rightfully lauded for the tireless work that they have done to keep the health care system from...
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Scenes from a sacrifice zone: South Baltimore residents fight back against...
This story was co-published with in In These Times on Aug. 14, 2024. The explosion happened on Dec. 30, 2021, in the working-class South Baltimore neighborhood of Curtis Bay. At the coal plant...
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Can the Olympics survive climate change?
The Olympics weren’t the only place new world records were set this summer. Across the globe, sweltering temperatures shattered previous climate records. As the climate crisis continues, these new...
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‘My dream is for the war to end’: Inside Gaza’s last schools
Nowhere is safe in Gaza, and this is particularly true for sites of key civilian infrastructure like hospitals and schools. Since October, Israel has damaged or destroyed 80 percent of Gaza’s schools...
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Will a new president revive the use of clemency?
The issue of mass incarceration has been far less central to the 2024 election thus far in comparison to the 2020 presidential race. However, that doesn’t make the matter any less pressing for...
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DNC protests begin: ‘Reproductive justice means free Palestine!’
On Sunday, Aug. 18, one day before the beginning of the Democratic National Convention, protestors rallied in downtown Chicago at a march organized by Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws: Coalition for...
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‘And Now They Want Our Votes’
This story was published by in In These Times on Aug. 19, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Chicago, we all know why we are here. We are drowning, and our hearts are broken. We are drowning in...
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The view from ’68: Bill Ayers on the Chicago DNC
It’s a presidential election year, and a deeply divisive imperialist war has split the public. As the Democratic National Convention gathers in Chicago, anti-war organizers vow to be in the streets to...
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‘Free Palestine!’: Thousands march through Chicago before DNC begins
Hours before the Democratic National Convention officially began on Monday, Aug. 19, thousands of people gathered in Chicago’s Union Park for a rally and march organized by the Coalition to March on...
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Biden says civilians being killed on both sides in Gaza. The ratio is 45 to 1.
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Aug. 20, 2024. It is shared here with permission. In a speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday night, President Joe Biden said that...
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