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As presidential campaigns descend on Illinois for Tuesday’s primary, a closely watched local race could yield the first electoral impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the nationwide conversation on police killings. Incumbent…

By Harold Meyerson /  The American Prospect   Photo Credit: AFP Photo/Jewel Samad Much as I’ve liked Bernie Sanders, I never believed he’d be a stronger candidate than Hillary Clinton in the November…

By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout “American democracy, always limited, has been drifting substantially toward plutocracy,” Noam Chomsky says. “But these tendencies are not graven in stone.”(Photo: Andrew Rusk; Edited: LW / TO) We…

By Donna Smith “From Maine to California the American people understand that establishment politics and establishment economics is not working,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders to great applause during a campaign…

By Kassandra Frederique  February 29, 2016   http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/mama-roz-preudhomme-when-you-honor-me-you-honor-those-who-came-me   <image001.jpg> She carries the name of the two women that she loves the most, her godmother and her grandmother, her name…

Cornel West. (photo: AOL) By Sarah Mimms, VICE  Hillary Clinton won the South Carolina primary on Saturday night by almost 50 percent of the vote, thanks in large part to her support from the…

As the crises we face intensify, so does the cry for the Movement of Movements to coalesce into one mass movement for change. But herein lies a seeming paradox: This…

By Andrew J. Bacevic   Whether or not Donald Trump ultimately succeeds in winning the White House, historians are likely to rank him as the most consequential presidential candidate of…

by: Bill Fletcher, Jr. Socialism is not a thing; it is a process. It is a process of societal transformation with the aim of creating a free and egalitarian arrangement in…