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The student activists have been suspended for participating in non-violent collective action demanding the university disclose and divest from its ties to Israel. Amba Guerguerian & Adrita Talukder ...

A Cuban-American socialist finds hope and heartbreak when he visits the island for the first time.

Twenty years after September 11, the World Trade Center redevelopment story encapsulates the political, economic, and cultural forces that rule New York City and even the United States. In the early ...

A Free Paper for Free PeopleAlso see “Five Anti-Capitalist Films to Watch in Isolation” by Liz Vogt Right now, it’s easy to feel disconnected. But if you have the energy and time, there are still ways ...

As of mid-February, Michael Bloomberg has spent over $400 million on his presidential campaign, including blanketing the air waves with ads and is on track to spend more than a billion dollars. As a ...

What does it mean to call Israel an apartheid state? The word, meaning literally “apartness,” originally referred to policies introduced in South Africa in 1948. Although presented as a path of equal ...

In the past year, Elsa Martinez has seen utility bills from New York energy monopoly Con Edison soar to as much as $300 per month. The costs seemed inexplicable to Martinez, a disabled Harlem resident ...

The Refaat Alareer camp has become a relatively safe place for some of Gaza’s most severely ill and injured residents, but it still can’t protect people from Israel’s violence.

The 4,500 tenants at NYCHA's Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses face the recent announcement that their buildings will be demolished and rebuilt by The Related Companies and Essence Realty.

In December 2020, over 50 years after Helen Keller’s death, the renowned deafblind woman became ensnared in controversy, as she often had in life. “Helen Keller is not radical at all,” Black ...

The socialist candidate is running on bold solutions to New York City's affordability crisis.