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After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve.

The force that threatens our existence isn’t an alien invasion — it’s climate change — and the response from mankind has been less that inspiring. So why hasn’t our species come together, in dramatic fashion, to save the day?

Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals—and bring the debate about his fitness for office into Congress, where it belongs. The Atlantic is the first major publication to call for Trump's impeachment.

A sickout by unpaid federal employees could bring the impasse—and their status as hostages to the president’s whim—to an end. Federal workers might learn from the successful example set by teachers from West Virginia to Arizona in 2018.

Reader Comments: Government Shutdown - Case for a General Strike; AOC and Tax Policy; Los Angeles Teachers; 2020 Elections - Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren; Sexual Harassment in Elections; Resources; Announcements; Protest Music links; and more...

AOC’s advocacy of a tax rate of 70-80 percent on very high incomes, is obviously crazy, right? Who thinks that makes sense? Only ignorant people like - Peter Diamond, Nobel laureate in economics, arguably the world’s leading expert on public finance

Women who ran for Congress avoided women’s issues in their campaign ads

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.

Reader Comments: Green New Deal Push On; Capitalism and Affordable Housing; Syrian Troop Withdrawal; Immigration; Honduran Migrants; Science and Religion Debate; Resources; Announcements; and more....