Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power By Allison S. Hartnett, University of Southern California, and Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics and Political Science Studies of colonialism often associate indirect colonial rule with continuity of the precolonial institutions. Yet, we know less about how colonialism affected the distribution of power between precolonial domestic elites within nominally continuous institutions.

Decades of data shows that nonworkers, including retirees and students, make up one of labor’s most consistently pro-union constituencies. The movement has more allies than it realizes, and harnessing them could reshape its strategic horizon.

In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians…

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Reiner was brutally killed “due to the anger he caused others” over his criticism of Trump, the president said.

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In Maine, only one of the top Democratic US Senate candidates supports Medicare for All, despite majority support from Mainers and Americans. Healthcare crisis looms as GOP blocks ACA subsidies. Mainers demand change. Will leaders listen and fight for universal healthcare? #MedicareForAll #HealthcareCrisis

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Last week, some swing-district Republicans inched away, selectively, from their party’s economics.

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Once an advocate for LGBTQ people and immigrants, Nicki Minaj now praises an administration cracking down on the same people.