George Jackson believed prison either brings out the very best in people – though not without perverse consequences, or it destroys them entirely. “But none are unaffected,” he’d often observe

Press conference by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, minister of Foreign Relations of Cuba, in Vienna, Austria, June 19, 2017

Behind all of Trump’s boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge for confrontation with Iran

20 years after the publication of The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy has returned to fiction and has just published her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Successful ballot initiatives won a higher minimum wage, free college for all, and a much higher affordable housing component in new developments

Pittsburgh’s much-touted revival has remade the region for the wealthy while leaving workers and the poor behind

Selling weapons to Saudi Arabia has consequences. The intense anti-US sentiment in Yemen should be a wake-up call for Americans

The abandoned main streets show the wear and tear of an economy that has shifted away from rural people, and of public policy that has forgotten to pay attention

When the momentum of the Bernie campaign gained powerful traction as a threat to the corporate order, big media efforts to trash him went over the top

In West Virginia, a young woman and a privileged physician lived very different lives. But they shared a crushing addiction

A Democratic Party resistant to enacting a $15 minimum wage inspires socialist activist to run for City Council

US-backed forces are using tactics that cause a ‘staggering’ number of civilian deaths, but military action won’t defeat ISIS

“It’s not just about being a fast-food worker; we’re a part of communities. “We want our voice to be heard and united”

Bureaucracy may constrain the worst of Trump and Brexit, but real fixes have to come from the bottom-up

Afghanistan, the first of the United States’ permanent wars, is in many ways the model for all the others that have followed — wars that have no other purpose than to serve the US war system itself

North Korea and Beyond

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro inaugurated Wednesday a new social program aimed at renewing ties between the government and community groups

The market system is fundamentally at odds with the concept of democracy and people having a say over decisions that affect them

I think this is this moment where progressive ideas are more popular than they’ve been in my lifetime

The framework of international laws and institutions established after the Second World War is at risk of being dismembered