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Choose a New Name For Washington’s Football Team
America’s most racist professional sports team name is finally being retired. But no word yet on what the new team name will be. Here are our nominations for a mascot appropriate for our nation’s capital. Grifters, Bombers, Despots or… Swamp Rats?
‘Pandemic Solidarity’ Offers Hope Amid COVID Gloom
The global crisis of COVID-19 has lasted long enough for us to see books published on how we responded…
Rekindling the ‘Romance of American Communism’
The reissue of Vivian Gornick’s classic work of oral history offers activists lessons for today.
Despite Fee Cap, NYC Restaurants Say Food Delivery Apps Are Eating Up Their Profits
On May 13, City Council passed a bill that caps the amount of delivery, marketing and service fees that…
How Zohran Mamdani’s Rap Career Taught Him to Campaign as a Socialist
The arts have a role in the future of American socialism and a slate of candidates backed by the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America is demonstrating what music and culture can do for the movement.
Op-Ed: Every Cop is a Criminal. All the Sinners Are Saints
In the eyes of the state, any violence is permissible in order to maintain control. The law is the…
I refused to see him die. I did not look at the newspapers in bodegas or on Facebook, or…
Frank Sinatra, Woody Guthrie, Arthur Miller & the Reds on the Brooklyn Waterfront
An excerpt from “Bernie’s Brooklyn: How Growing Up In The New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics” by Theodore Hamm.
Reopening The Economy Will Unleash Predatory Capital
And so we begin our erotic dance across the six feet that has come between us. Doing a strip-tease…