From Toronto’s Rob Ford to Donald Trump, racist candidates attract nonwhite support. What gives?

And proves Moscow’s concerns were well grounded

The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains

We shouldn’t give Biden any breathing room and wait to see what he does before acting. We need to build campaigns and social movements and mass action in the streets for progressive policies

Social movements from South Africa to Brazil have built economic systems rooted in cooperation, creativity and direct action as an antidote to the neoliberal order

With scant comments about U.S. assassination programs, there are indications that Biden would keep the drone wars around

Biden’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Michèle Flourno,y should be understood as a scenario for the president-elect to stick his middle fingers in the eyes of Americans who are fed up with endless war and ongoing militarism

They need to start holding hostage the things that Republicans hold dear

Biden may tone down Trump’s trade war and bring back some limited human rights advocacy, but there may be more continuity than either administration admits

Canceling student debt would be a boon to debtors and the wider economy, and could be part of a larger wave of progressive action from the Biden administration

We’re the only country in the entire industrialized world that…

A key figure from the newly-formed Popular Revolutionary Alternative talks about his expectations for the upcoming parliamentary elections

As Pfizer and Moderna prepare to roll out their COVID 19 vaccines, the problems associated with publicly funded vaccines in the hands of private companies are already on the horizon, as the drug industry seeks to control global efforts for a cure

The best way to get better electoral outcomes is to build strong non-electoral movements

Chile’s referendum result is a cry for progressive change, but the struggle to translate mass social mobilization into the drafting of a new constitution remains

Who will be vaccinated first — and in what country?

AOC & Cori Bush Join Climate Protest Outside DNC Urging Activists to “Bring the Heat”

Jewish-Led Groups Condemn Pompeo for Declaring Boycott-Divestment Movement Anti-Semitic

Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that works both ways, making it relatively easy for President Biden to reverse many of Trump’s most disastrous decisions

“The true path to defeating Trumpism forever lies within the blue-collar, working-class poor of this country.”