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ELMORE, Ala.—Tiffany Montellano can’t sleep.  Instead, she lies awake, worried about her husband Andrew, 31, who is incarcerated at Elmore Correctional Facility just north of Montgomery, Alabama’s state capital.  She worries because a few days ago, she received a call during her lunch break from Andrew, who had missed their usual call the night before.  […]

One of the world’s most-used shortcuts is at risk as a severe drought plagues Central America.  Starting in early September, the Panama Canal will reduce the number of ships allowed to pass through each day due to low water levels in the artificial lakes that feed the lock system. Experts say the reason for the […]

Just in from our partners at Tennesseeans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: The Tennesseean newspaper ran an informal reader poll last week, in which 93% of respondents said Tennessee should abolish capital punishment entirely. A smaller group (roughly 3%) supported an indefinite pause, while others advocated reforming the state’s death penalty. Just over 2% […]

Industrial policy is back in vogue in recent years — but without the working-class power to discipline capital, it’s just public money flowing to private profit.

The Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission will use artificial intelligence to speed up scientific research and “national security” work. The White House compares its urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project: the program that created the first atomic bomb.

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Ulm Five. In the July-August Against the Current, Annette Ohme-Reinicke discussed the case of the Ulm Five as part of her story on repression in Germany. Here is an update on the trial of the Ulm Five. THE ACCUSED ARE brought in one by one in handcuffs accompanied by a guard who stays and stands… Continue reading German Trial of Pro-Palestinian Activists

Public ownership may seem like the most obvious solution to the problems posed by AI. But purpose trusts could offer a more pluralistic form of social ownership — one that subordinates profit to a variety of public purposes.

America gave Prince Harry and Meghan Markle streaming deals, sunshine, and an insane amount of money. What it couldn’t give them was a personality independent of the monarchy.

With El Nino peering over our shoulders, wildfires growing, and heat waves extending… the feelings of Summer 2026 are far from over. The climate and biodiversity crisis are on full display, and so is the Stand.earth community and environmental movement. With that in mind we unequivocally  blew it out of the water as everyone came […]

It’s been five years since Berliners voted by referendum to expropriate the big corporate landlords. The ruling parties blocked the move, but next month’s state elections could produce a left-wing government that can finally honor the vote.

Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are disproportionately responsible for the water crisis in the American West, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday. From 2014 to 2024, climate change sapped over a third of the region’s typical annual snowpack and decreased streamflows by about 13 percent, the authors found in the […]

The 12 largest gas power projects planned in Texas are all specifically intended to run data centers, according to data released Tuesday by Global Energy Monitor, a global nonprofit that maps and tracks energy infrastructure.  The volume of gas power generation planned in Texas has continued to surge, growing by 50 percent in the last […]

Pennsylvania was a pioneer on renewable energy before the fracking boom upended that trajectory, and environmental advocates think it’s past time for state leaders to once again prioritize clean forms of power. The nonprofit PennFuture outlined ways for Pennsylvania to do so in a new report, accusing the state’s legislature of “policy inertia” for failing […]

Three days was all it took for the Trump administration’s Colorado River plan to see a legal challenge from, somewhat ironically, Nevada.  Of the seven states that rely on the river, Nevada gets the smallest amount by law. Nevada water managers said the long-term impacts from the proposed cuts could be devastating—with Las Vegas bearing […]

The first group of large data centers in line to get connected to Texas’ grid won’t move forward until mid-December, grid officials say.  Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) staff needs to vet the first 300 projects, 90 percent of which are data centers, in “Batch Zero,” and put together a community impact review as […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has proposed a sweeping rewrite of federal radiation protection regulations.

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Karl Marx’s anti-utopian line is often used to avoid discussion about what socialism would be like. But engaging in the nuts and bolts of how a postcapitalist economy might work is also necessary, to make it more than a distant dream.

New York media has had a field day digging into the backgrounds of socialist leaders like NYC-DSA Cochair Gustavo Gordillo. But what exactly is the “gotcha” — that some people who lead comfortable, secure lives want security and comfort for everyone?

Socialists are on a roll in elections across the US, often winning without the support of organized labor. It’s high time for unions to get on board with socialist candidates, to make the most of having ambitious pro-worker politicians in their corner.

The new crop of pro-worker legislators who have recently been elected at the state and local levels can pass laws that can rebuild the labor movement, even with Donald Trump as president. Here are six ways they can do it.