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Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.

Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee.

Fast-food corporations opposed a California minimum wage increase under the guise of concern for workers, claiming it would result in lost jobs. The bill passed, and the numbers are in: that concern was just scaremongering.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.

Unions need to plan a response now.

Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.

Tennis star Billie Jean King challenged America to create more opportunities for women and LGBTQ people. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized school, amateur, and professional athletics.

However one might reject their premises, some fraction of the American men who have succumbed to the lure of Trump’s fascism need to feel seen and heard and recognized. Saving the country from tyranny needs to become aspirational for men.