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We need another aid bill. Elected officials have a responsibility to stabilize both communities and the housing market.

"How did we go from preventing baby dumping, fighting domestic violence to some sad variant of the Obedient Wives Club?"

"Cuba's Cancer Hope" is a new documentary on the two countries' research into a lung cancer vaccine and proves that no political feud can "block" progress.

Even social distancing sparks a culture war. Even Britney gets woke. And more revelations

This op-ed argues that people swooning over the New York governor's steady hand during the coronavirus crisis should look at his record in office.

This crisis calls for us to challenge the government system that is failing us. Now is an opportunity for radical collective action.

The case has never been clearer for a transition to Medicare for All, but its achievement clashes with the Democratic Party’s decades-long hostility to funding the social-welfare state.

MFK Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf is a hopeful message on how to survive during wartime when food supply lines were disrupted, fuel was scarce, and people stocked "blackout shelves" in case of a bombing.

Texas and Ohio have ordered a stop to abortions, saying they’re not essential medical services. Other states will follow. Right-wing forces are using the pandemic as a pretext to crack down dramatically on abortion rights. We can’t let them.

Why do we fail in protecting our own people’s health and well-being while we squander more than a trillion dollars each year – with the assent of both Republicans and Democrats – on maintaining a failed and futile military empire across the world?