“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a ...

Housing is central to the push and pull over the politics of affordability, as a new crop of left-wing congressional candidates run on freezing rents and protecting renters, building off the momentum ...

Six and a half months into a lockout, the oil giant is appealing workers’ unemployment, a move that could force union members ...

A ceasefire was supposed to bring calm to a Gaza devastated by genocide. Instead, Israel not only continues to violate it, ...

In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by the growth of right-wing populist and neofascist mass movements. What makes this situation ...

NEW ORLEANS — Growing up in Memphis, Tenn., Rahman Brooks remembers hearing stories about the city’s famous 1968 sanitation strike. Martin Luther King Jr. was in town supporting the workers when he ...

Gil Scott-Heron is a tall calm singer. He smiles lightly from off stage and cocks his head. The sell-out crowd of blacks and whites in their 20s is on its feet calling for an encore. The audience is ...

While teaching and conducting research can be wonderful experiences, working conditions in higher education have become increasingly horrible. In the United States, massive state disinvestment ...

Some researchers have criticized The FAST Mobile Module on the grounds that it may be difficult, even impossible, to predict malicious intent using physiological indicators. (Photo courtesy of the ...

How much influence has the Tea Party really had in American politics? Obama is a deeply familiar figure among tea partiers and conservative Christians. He has the energy and charisma of a pastor—but ...

I am critical of Cuba not because I am anti-Communist but because I remain a Communist. The true tragedy is that the very remaining authenticity of the Cuban revolution made it possible for the Castro ...

While attending the University of Oklahoma in 1956 – 57, I met a Palestinian petroleum engineering student named Said Abu-Lughod. Said, whose older brother Ibrahim Abu-Lughod would become a renowned ...