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I worked with a guy named Irving Taffler in Brooklyn politics in the early 1970s. After a long day of door-to-door campaigning together for a progressive challenging a right-wing New York State assemblyman, we sat down for some cool drinks at the campaign headquarters in the Park Slope section of Br...

WASHINGTON—Just days after President Joe Biden announced his re-election campaign and told union reps at a gathering in Washington about the variety of progressive bills he has passed and others he intends to support in a second term, he is now unrolling a dangerous and major escalation in his adm...

Tucker Carlson is the latest in a string of right-wing ideologues who, historically, rose to great heights in U.S. media to carry out the job of making fascism acceptable to Americans.

WASHINGTON—More revelations about the corporate and right-wing ties of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, his lobbyist wife Ginni Thomas and his failure for almost two decades to disclose even minimal information about both have raised pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to name a spe...

The follies of U.S. plans for war and more war are being exposed now by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his current visit to China. On Friday, the day that the Washington Post reported the U.S.

NASHVILLE—One of the Black Democrats expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives for his role in an anti-gun protest inside the State Capitol was sworn back in to his seat on Monday in a stinging defeat for the fascistic Republican supermajority that dominates the legislature.

NASHVILLE—As outrage builds over Tennessee white Republican lawmakers’ expulsion of Black State Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who advocated for strong gun control, local officials in Nashville and Memphis prepared to re-install them in their now-vacant seats.

The argument for keeping People’s World alive is a more critical one now than ever before. That’s because we are at a critical juncture in U.S. history, one that could end up with a fascist takeover of our country.

MADISON, Wisc. - In what was perhaps the most consequential state Supreme Court race in U.S. history yesterday the winner was a liberal judge, Janet Protasiewicz, giving progressives their first majority on the court since 2008.

CHICAGO - Brandon Johnson, a progressive African American community activist, union organizer and former teacher, defied the pollsters and was elected as Chicago’s next mayor yesterday in a major victory for progressives.