Politics
Karl Marx makes a comeback
September 14, 2017Over the last decade, Marx has also made a comeback as a serious intellectual figure. In the fall of 2008, as the global financial crisis was starting to be felt and understood, The Guardian reported on...
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Republican Senate leadership unable to scuttle debate on U.S. wars
September 13, 2017Rand Paul, libertarian and one-time GOP presidential hopeful, threatened to paralyze the Senate unless Mitch McConnell allowed debate on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Senate prods Trump to move against white supremacist groups
September 12, 2017The measure pushes Trump “to do more than track” racist attacks and actually counter them with a coordinated government response.
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Donald Trump: Evictor-in-chief
September 11, 2017With the termination of DACA, Trump seeks to evict 800,000 people from the U.S., but New Yorkers are standing up to him.
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Federal Appeals Court rejects Trump administrations definition of “close relative”
September 8, 2017The court also ruled that refugees accepted by a resettlement agency should not be banned.
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