Social Movements in Chile Fend Off Far Right Threat With Gabriel Boric’s Victory
Former student activist and leftist Gabriel Boric will become Chile’s youngest president after easily defeating the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast with over 55% of the vote. Boric has pledged to fight for social reforms and to overhaul the neoliberal economic policies of the U.S.-backed dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. We speak with Chilean […]
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Biden Admin to Distribute 500 Million Free COVID Tests After Mocking Idea
After mocking up the idea, two weeks earlier, the Biden White House on Tuesday announced a plan to distribute 500 million free at-home coronavirus tests to households across the U.S. as the administration ramps up its effort to combat the surging Omicron variant, which now accounts for nearly 75% of the nation’s new cases. According […]
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bell hooks, We Will Always Rage On With You
I was stunned when I heard the news about bell hooks’ passing. But, I felt a sense of closure. It was an answer to a question which had been weighing heavily on my mind for the past few months. You see, bell, who left us on December 15, 2021, wasn’t just a public intellectual to […]
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Trump White House Deliberately Undermined Efforts to Contain COVID, Report Says
On Friday, a congressional committee tasked with examining the nation’s COVID-19 response announced that it had uncovered evidence that the Trump administration purposely undermined efforts to manage the spread of the virus in order to personally benefit the former president. The report comes from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which was established […]
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Manchin Suggests He Was Never Planning to Support Reconciliation Bill Proposals
After announcing his opposition to Democrats’ Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) explained in an interview on Monday that he never planned on compromising with fellow Democrats to support crucial portions of the bill – and that he preferred instead to essentially axe the bill altogether. On West Virginia MetroNews’s “Talkline with […]
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Ocasio-Cortez and Warren Pressure Amazon to Explain Its Role in Tornado Deaths
Progressive lawmakers are seeking answers on Amazon’s role in deaths caused by a warehouse collapse earlier this month after reports emerged showing that the company didn’t allow employees to leave even when a tornado was about to strike. A joint effort by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D.Massachusetts), and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D.New York) and Cori […]
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2022 Must Be the Year the Left Proactively Shapes the COVID Agenda
As we head into the winter holidays nervously checking news about the Omicron variant and rising COVID-19 case numbers, let’s take a moment to think of how a more just society might handle the coming weeks. Remote options would be offered by many workplaces and schools for the last week of Christmas, in order to […]
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Left Melts Down Because Joe Manchin Opposes ‘Mammoth’ Spending Bill
A single Democrat came out against President Joe Biden’s massive, multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better plan and the left is having a collective conniption. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said Sunday that he would have to cast a “no” vote for Democrats’ current Build Back Better bill, a version of which already has passed the House. “I […]
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Manchin Says He Opposes Sick Leave Because People Will Use It for Hunting Trips
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) evidently told colleagues in the Senate that he opposes universal paid sick time because he thinks workers would pretend to be sick in order to go on hunting trips – despite the fact that the country just hit a tragic milestone of 800,000 deaths due to COVID-19. The news comes […]
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AOC Warned About Manchin’s Betrayal. Democratic Leaders Chose to Ridicule Her.
It seems like almost forever since Cassandra of Troy — blessed with the power to predict the future, cursed by the fact that no one would believe her — has been in the news, but she’s back this week with a thunderclap and yet another, “I told you so.” Her name this time is Rep. […]
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