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Federal Reserve Board Jerome Powell at a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers

Notes from Inflation Economics 101.

Sep 15, 2022 / Robert Pollin

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas Hindu Nationalism’s Alarming Rise in the US Goes Beyond Texas

The 2019 Houston rally—where Trump and Modi rubbed elbows—wasn’t the end of Hindutva's ascent in the United States. 

Sep 15, 2022 / Pranay Somayajula

Election Deniers Are Gearing Up to Take Office

Election Deniers Are Gearing Up to Take Office Election Deniers Are Gearing Up to Take Office

Republicans who claim the 2020 election was rigged are on the ballot for 60 percent of the electorate. Their influence on future elections could be devastating.

Sep 15, 2022 / Chris Lehmann

Bill McKibben

The Indefatigable Bill McKibben The Indefatigable Bill McKibben

An interview with the environmentalist about what inspires him, how he became a writer, and his recent book, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon.

Sep 15, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Camille Baker

Biden Lloyd Austin

An Inflated Pentagon Budget Is Not in the Country’s Best Interest An Inflated Pentagon Budget Is Not in the Country’s Best Interest

Scamming the taxpayer has become a way of life for the national security state.

Sep 15, 2022 / Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung

Nation Poetry

Elegy for a Poet Who Loved Sneakers Elegy for a Poet Who Loved Sneakers

  I didn’t know who you were, and then you died. I went searching for your poems online devouring one after another then reading your Twitter feed backwards, your voice gettin…

Sep 15, 2022 / Poems / P. Scott Cunningham

A man waves a Russian national flag next to a burning barricade protesting Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.

Haiti Is On Fire Again, and Again the US Does Nothing to Help Haiti Is On Fire Again, and Again the US Does Nothing to Help

Untroubled by the ballot, hugely unpopular, useless, negligent, and ruling without anything that could qualify as a functioning legislature, the country’s de facto prime minister, ...

Sep 14, 2022 / Amy Wilentz

Beauty in Harlem

Beauty in Harlem Beauty in Harlem

Celebrating Afrocentric art and culture.

Sep 14, 2022 / OppArt

King Charles III May Keep His Head—His Kingdom Is Another Story

King Charles III May Keep His Head—His Kingdom Is Another Story King Charles III May Keep His Head—His Kingdom Is Another Story

The monarchy needs deaths and weddings for its cyclical renewal. But they called last orders on the United Kingdom some time ago.

Sep 14, 2022 / Tariq Ali

United Farm Workers members and supporters march to the capitol building in Sacramento

Biden vs. Newsom on Farmworkers’ Right To Vote Biden vs. Newsom on Farmworkers’ Right To Vote

In a heated debate over farmworker voting rights, California’s governor refuses to sign a bill to make it easier for workers to win union recognition.

Sep 14, 2022 / Photo Essay / David Bacon

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