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In June, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that restricted carrying guns in public. Since then, 38 states have some form of open carry laws, and legislatures in others are preparing to do the same.
Already known for its “Wild West” gun culture, this only increases gun violence in the (...)
Ashley Smith and Charlie Post draw a balance sheet of the midterm elections and their lessons for the socialist Left in the United States.
Across the United States there was an audible sigh of relief as the threatened “Red Wave” in the midterm elections petered out into a “Red Trickle.” The (...)
Dozens of homes near Daytona Beach collapsed or were left unstable when Hurricane Nicole struck. Here’s what can be done to reduce that kind of risk.
Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several houses, and even swimming pools, were left (...)
As advocates for patients and a just, healthy society, the registered nurses of National Nurses United mourn in solidarity with our LGBTQ+ siblings targeted in Saturday’s deadly Colorado Springs shooting and condemn the rightwing groups, elected officials, and social media accounts and media (...)
Some 48,000 academic workers on ten campuses of the University of California walked out on strike on November 14 demanding higher pay and increased benefits in what is the largest strike in the United States so far this year.
It is also the largest strike in the history of higher education in (...)
Respiratory viruses are hitting young children and infants particularly hard this fall and winter season, and experts don’t yet know exactly why.
Every fall and winter, viral respiratory illnesses like the common cold and seasonal flu keep kids out of school and social activities. But this (...)
Abortion referendums in such states as California and Kentucky provide a way to protect abortion rights at the state level – but voting limitations could undermine the power of the ballot box.
The abortion landscape in the U.S. has been upended over the past five months, as many clinics (...)
“Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis”—and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine.
1. Why is the principle of self-determination so important to understanding the conflict in Ukraine? (...)
The Democratic Party did better than expected in the U.S. mid-term elections, preventing what Republicans claimed would be a “red Tsunami” (red being the Republican color). “It was a good day for democracy, and I think a good day for America,” said President Joe Biden, who also announced that he (...)
There was no Republican massive “sweep” in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, as many had predicted. What prevented this “sweep” was something the media talking heads got wrong and the posters missed because they didn’t ask the right questions, was that the right to abortion became a deciding factor (...)
Jill Stein has form. Mary Scully, an Irish-American activist and blogger, explains below.
The Green Party (USA) is split down the middle on this issue.
This party’s 2020 Presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins, endorses the policy of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) and (...)
The headlines of the international press on the outcome of the US midterm elections are not wrong: Yes, the long-awaited Republican tsunami did not materialise. And the Democrats held up much better than they had hoped. The reason for all these big surprises is beginning to emerge: Young (...)
PATRIARCHAL POLITICIANS AND rulers pass judgment on women and those who defy sexual stereotypes, imposing laws to empower “morality police” the world over — Iran, Afghanistan, India and Saudi Arabia; Poland, El Salvador and the USA.
Women’s struggles for bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom and (...)
The Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter on Ukraine to President Biden signed by 30 of its members on October 24. Within 24 hours the letter had been formally retracted. What are we to make of all this?
1. Did the Progressive Caucus mess up?
The letter was not formally sent on (...)
On October 28, a man named David DePape, 42, broke into the San Francisco home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who holds the third most powerful position in the U.S. government. The intruder shouted, “Where’s Nancy?” and then attacked her husband Paul Pelosi, 82, with a hammer. (...)
What divides the U.S. left on the war in Ukraine? Union activist and New Politics editor Dan La Botz traces the positions of the leftist scene in the United States
I. American Politics and Foreign Policy
The American people by and large support Ukraine in its battle for its sovereignty (...)
The North American British colonies and then the United States carried out genocidal suppression of the Native Americans, and similar suppressions of native peoples occurred in other settler-colonial countries.
It has become more widely known in recent years that bourgeois democracy in the (...)
The midterm elections are likely to return to Congress elected representatives who hold a range of religious beliefs.
But while self-identified Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and Hindus currently rub shoulders in the corridors of power, one group is noticeably absent : atheists. And (...)
“According to the most recent New York Times/Siena College poll, 49 percent of voters plan to vote Republican and 45 percent Democrat, with Republicans gaining among women and Latinos. The Democrat’s principal problem is the economy.”
Midterm elections that will decide who controls Congress will (...)
THE RECENT ONLINE webinar organized by Friends of Socialist China, “China encirclement and the imperialist build-up in the Pacific” proved another occasion for tankies to speak in hyperbolic terms about the possibility of US-China conflict over Taiwan. As usual, there was scarcely any concern (...)
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