History suggests that the battle over the bailout—which is set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.
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The thousands of low-wage, hourly, and gig-work employees who are getting sent home amid the crisis need an income guarantee that goes beyond traditional unemployment insurance.
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Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today's critics of neoliberal capitalism.
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Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.
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Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.
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Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.
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Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-wealthy is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.
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If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger's insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.
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A Q&A with author Sam Pizzigati.
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Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America's "strike drought," and the future role of mass disobedience in democratic politics.