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Diane Ravitch on Trump, DeVos and the corporate ed "reform" agenda

Posted January 29, 2017 • 00:55:49

Donald Trump has nominated Betsy DeVos, a free-market, far-right Christian billionaire dedicated to privatizing public schools, to be his Secretary...

Jacobin's All-Star Socialist Anti-Inauguration Extravaganza

Posted January 21, 2017 • 01:49:31

This week we re-broadcast Jacobin Magazine,

Building a diverse working class movement to transform America

Posted January 17, 2017 • 00:56:06

What is to be done? How can I get involved? Those are questions that a lot of people are asking now that Donald Trump is about to become...

Glenn Greenwald on Trump and the national security state

Posted January 10, 2017 • 00:40:01

Presidents Bush and Obama both presided over an expansive War on Terror and a national security state with a lethal and global reach. Permanent war...

Trump didn't invent being terrible on immigration: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández & Chris Newman.

Posted December 21, 2016 • 01:05:32

Donald Trump launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and pledged to build a “a big, fat, beautiful wall” on the southern...