Politics

'A reminder of why we have unions': Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement

John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice

Lawmakers push for a more robust Epstein Files Transparency Act

After the justice department botched file rollout under the original act, lawmakers now want legislation with teeth

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

The One Town That Wants a Data Center

Opposition to data centers may be the singular unifying issue in American politics. Seventy percent of Americans are against data-center construction in their communities. They worry about the environmental dracularity of these facilities, the electrical costs they may impose, and the imperiousness with which tech companies target struggling communities while drastically altering the landscape. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have spoken out against data centers; so have Steve Bannon and the right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh.

‘Danger no longer only comes from the hitmen, but from the state’: the Honduran farmers labelled terrorists for protecting their land

After another massacre of smallholders – who are subjected to violence from palm oil firms and drug traffickers – the country’s new Trump-backed government has criminalised community leaders

Why Is the U.S. Running So Low on Weapons?

Allies that depend on U.S. military equipment need a Plan B.

Suspect arrested in Greece after British woman's body found in suitcase

Greek police on Sunday said they had arrested a suspect in their investigation into the death of a British woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Athens this month.

Will Missouri be the next primary win for a democratic socialist challenger?

Voters face a choice of progressive ex-congresswoman Cori Bush or pro-Israel incumbent Wesley Bell on Tuesday

Are Trump’s most blatant authoritarian moves backfiring?

The president’s methods, from ‘flooding the zone’ with scandals to prioritizing loyalty over competence, could ultimately weaken rather than strengthen him

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show medical procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws

Abandoned by the US: Palestinian Americans trapped in a surge of Israeli settler violence

After visits by US ambassador Mike Huckabee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Shilo, Palestinian Americans in Turmus Ayya have witnessed a terrifying rise in attacks

Blame the Cornyns and the Tillises

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