A Coup is Coming. Only the Socialist Left Can Stop It. The ascendant faction of the Republican Party is organizing to steal the 2028 Congressional and Presidential elections and cement minority rule over all

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I'm No Longer Waiting For The Storm To Pass Working as Noam Chomsky’s assistant, and in later years his fellow traveler, the lessons I learned spanned various domains and disciplines, but most

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A New Era of Scholarship Is Shining a Light on the Black Philosophical Tradition Without this history, students may see Black thinkers as footnotes rather than world-historical contributors.

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Zohran Mamdani and the Rise of the Renter Politicians From city councils to Congress, homeowners have always dominated elected office. But after Mamdani’s victory, a slew of candidates want to follow in his footsteps.

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Trump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government President Trump has been purging Black officials in independent agencies at a higher rate than anyone else, a new lawsuit says.

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Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval

Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

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Dreaming of a Blue Texas Will economic progress turn Texas progressive?

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The Democratic Party’s Moment of Reckoning A decade after Bernie Sanders almost tore the presidential nomination out of the decrepit hands of the Democratic establishment, the party’s old guard, ancient political formulas, and outdated corpora...

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Israel says it will not join any US ground operation in Iran Israeli forces will not take part in any US ground operation in Iran, according to Israeli media reports, as Washington weighs whether to widen its role in the war. Channel 12 said on Sunday that i…

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Uncovering Palestine’s Forgotten Uprising: The Story Behind Palestine 36 ScheerPost Staff Palestine 36 Resurrects the Revolt Britain Tried to Bury Nearly a century before the present devastation in Gaza, before checkpoints carved through Palestinian cities and military …

Uncovering Palestine’s Forgotten Uprising: The Story Behind Palestine 36 scheerpost.com/2026/03/31/u...

The True Story Behind 'The Voice of Hind Rijab' And how the Oscar contender has become part of a movement pushing a global call for justice for Gaza victims.

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"Iran was an Obstacle to Israeli Hegemony" - Juan Cole & Friends at Rutgers CSSR This week I was interviewed by Sahar Aziz, of the Law School at Rutgers, along with my friend Mojtaba Mahdavi, on the Iran War. Here is the video. I also append the transcript. Thatnks to the Ru...

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Diego Rivera Was the Painter of the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution inspired an extraordinary cultural efflorescence, with painting as its leading art form. The spectacular murals of Diego Rivera, inspired by Mexico’s popular history and culture...

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Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable With the Trump administration refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the case is a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.

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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

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Khamenei’s Killing and the Perilous Death of the Assassination Ban Khamenei’s killing ends U.S. ban on assassination, deepens U.S.-Israeli lethal ties, and invites States to abandon diplomacy for violence.

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Survey of Sovereign Standing: Developments in State-Led Lawsuits The success of these lawsuits suggests that states with real injuries have a path to redress in court, across the political spectrum.

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The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

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Trump isn't immune from civil claims his Jan. 6 rally speech incited riot, judge says A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump isn’t immune from civil claims that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S.

Judge says Trump not immune from civil claims his Jan. 6 words incited riot | AP News apnews.com/article/trum...

New York, cyclists against the ICE: solidarity is contagious We publish the collective interview with the New York group Cycling x Solidarity NYC , inspired by the similar group in Chicago. When was your group

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Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences

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Trump is contemplating the sheer folly of boots on the ground in Iran. How did it come to this? | Simon Tisdall After the anguish of Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s almost unthinkable the US would again send troops to the Middle East – but its president is desperate and narcissistic, says foreign affairs commentator...

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Disillusioned by the Neoliberal Establishment On Gen-Z’s shift to the Left and Far-Right

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Mapping Police Violence: For the First Time in Six Years, Police Violence Declined in 2025 Activism works: in 2025, fatal police violence declined for the first time in six years.

Mapping Police Violence: For the First Time in Six Years, Police Violence Declined in 2025
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An Iran Exit Plan There’s still time for a sensible compromise between Washington and Tehran.

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120 Harvard Jewish Affiliates Condemn Justice Department Antisemitism Lawsuit | News | The Harvard Crimson 120 Jewish affiliates at Harvard have signed an open letter denouncing the U.S. Department of Justice’s latest lawsuit against Harvard, accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing antisemitism co...

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The Iran War Is About Palestine By helping Israel demolish what’s left of international legal constraint, the Iran war is hastening the dissolution of the Palestinian question.

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‘We Won’t Die for Israel’: Military Members Seek a Way Out as U.S. War Expands In recent interviews on Clearing the FOG, Margaret Flowers highlights a sharp rise in military personnel seeking conscientious objector status, speaking with Mike Prysner of the Center on Conscienc…

‘We Won’t Die for Israel’: Military Members Seek a Way Out as U.S. War Expands scheerpost.com/2026/03/25/w...

A Court Ordered Trump’s Department of Education to Roll Back Its Anti-DEI Efforts. Why haven’t Universities Reversed Course? Last month, the department conceded that it could not make universities’ race-conscious efforts illegal, but universities nationwide have yet to reinstate their diversity, equity, and inclusion eff…

A Court Ordered Trump’s Department of Education to Roll Back Its Anti-DEI Efforts. Why haven’t Universities Reversed Course? scheerpost.com/2026/03/20/a...