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Joshua Leifer January 23, 2025 A view of the Gaza Strip from Israel on January 19 (Amir Levy/Getty Images) On Sunday, after a delay of several hours, the long-hoped-for ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas finally went into effect. At around 5:00 p.m. in Gaza City, uniformed Hamas militants appeared in Saraya Square to initiate the transfer of three female Israeli hostages—Romi Gonen ...

Dec 19, 2024 · Matt and Sam talk to the hosts of the 5-4 podcast about how Trump can remake the federal judiciary—and perhaps the broader justice system—during his second term. Know Your Enemy: Organizing in Rural America

A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.

Higher education can't solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse.

In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.

The long hot summer of 2020 integrated abolition into political agendas on a previously unprecedented scale. Since then, journalists and activists with questions about the meaning, vision, and practice of abolition have repeatedly turned to the geographer and organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In her scholarship, Gilmore has rigorously exposed the political and economic forces that have led to the ...

Oct 8, 2024 · Our Objectives Objectives in democratic socialist politics take two general forms. First, there is the enactment of laws, government policies, and social compacts that advance our principles. Second, there is the organization and mobilization of working people and marginalized communities, the building of institutions (such as political organizations and unions), and the winning of elections ...

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