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Amid aggressive bank lobbying and President Donald Trump’s deregulatory efforts, one of the core financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the Great Recession is being quietly readied for a comeback — even as economic and climate conditions make its return all the more destabilizing.

Last week marked the fifty-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision enshrining the absurd idea that money in politics is not corruption, but constitutionally protected speech.

Robin Wonsley is the Minneapolis City Council member for Ward Two, the council’s minority leader, and leader of Minneapolis’s Democratic Socialist Caucus.

For months, tenants in dozens of rent-stabilized buildings owned by Pinnacle Group tried to do something New York housing law almost never permits: stop their landlord from selling their homes to another speculative owner.

Apart from Bernie Sanders, few public figures stump more often and more energetically for single-payer health care than physician-turned-public-servant Dr Abdul El-Sayed.

It may come as a surprise that a substantial portion of America’s economy is worker- and union-owned — technically.

In 2000, Bill Clinton famously quipped that China’s attempts to control the internet were akin to  trying to “nail Jello to the wall.”

Congressional Democrats are almost preternaturally talented at missing the moment, especially when it comes to immigration.

As the documentary Melania prepared to debut on Friday, its promotional posters across Los Angeles were vandalized with graffiti that transformed Melania Trump into a kind of Third Reich Barbie.

What will it take to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Donald Trump? More and more Americans are coming around to the following answer: a general strike.

Shawn Fain won the runoff to be president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in March 2023, and the union he was elected to lead was in free fall.

Diana Moreno, were she to emerge victorious tomorrow, would have perhaps the largest shoes to fill of any first-term state legislator in New York State history.

While European labor movements established foundations for their welfare states in the late nineteenth century, it was not until the New Deal that the United States began instituting policies like unemployment insurance and old-age pensions.

California’s multibillion-dollar home insurance industry would have you believe it’s on the verge of collapse.

Between the mid-1960s and the 1980s, military dictatorships dominated South America, epitomized by the ABC countries: Argentina from 1966 to 1971 and 1976 to 1983, Brazil from 1964 to 1985, and Chile from 1973 to 1990. Three historians of Latin America ask what, if anything, military rule in these three countries reveals about the current […]

Being a woman in Palestine means experiencing violence on two parallel tracks.

After a decade of highs and lows, the British left has entered into a period of realignment.

In the 1970s and early ’80s, a wave of low-budget Australian cinema gained popularity with US audiences.

Coupang, an e-commerce platform that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has been stirring public outrage over the past few months in South Korea, home to most of its colossal operations, amid revelations of massive data breaches and unsafe workplace practices.

After their stunning success in helping elect Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York last fall, the city’s democratic socialists are gearing up for a string of races up and down the ballot this year.