There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

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As of June 2025, ICE agents are storming California farms, mom-and-pop restaurants, and Home Depot parking lots — chasing undocumented workers through blueberry fields in chaotic mass sweeps to ...

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On June 18, Anasse Kazib, a French railway worker, trade unionist and socialist leader will stand trial for the charge of “apologia for terrorism.” His supposed crime? Tweets posted to the ...

Students in Serbia have done more than merely block their universities. For the first time in thirty years, they have lifted the stone beneath which, now ...

Are we all fools? Apparently, the US Forest Service and our politicians think so as we see exploding budgets for addressing wildfire that result in ...

Have you noticed? Sixties folk—organizers, activists, pacifists, feminists and liberationists of all stripes— can't seem to get enough of the era when ...

The 2024 presidential election ushered in an extreme shift in political winds to an unanticipated degree. In the White House, the President issued a ...