1. The Fourteenth Amendment: a critical history lesson

2. US ratchets up war with retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Yemen

3. Gagging students at the University of Michigan

4. A warning for whistleblowers and Julian Assange

5. Refugees made pawns while politicians wrestle for  power and imperialist war aims

6. US public school districts face existential crisis 

7. India: the necessity for class struggle not caste struggle 

8. Banks teeter from commercial property downturn 

9. Mexico: billionaires, drug cartels, and US imperialist pressure

10. Resurgent fascism in Germany amid confusion about how to fight it

11. Power struggle among Ukrainian leaders 

12. Companies axe jobs after “historic” union agreements 

13. French government pirouettes to the far right and teachers strike