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With the great frustration of politics in our times, the poet Pauletta Hansel concedes that the worst thoughts inevitably, spontaneously, come to mind.

The contradictory character of Trump foreign policy has left the peace movement befuddled. Perhaps the task is to include in the project of building a progressive majority ideas about challenging the US as an imperial power.

The bodies of 39 migrants were found dead in a trailer in Britain. They had all suffocated. This is yet another chapter of the drama of migration and self-segregation into which Europe is retreating.

Talk About Direct Action Getting Results': Bankrupt Blackjewel Agrees to Pay Over $5 Million to Laid Off Coal Miners Who Blocked Train Tracks

Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials is gender. Witch trials weren’t just about baseless accusations. They were also about a justice system that escalated local grievances to capital offenses and targeted a subjugated group.

Study reveals rampant racism in decision-making software used by US hospitals — and highlights ways to correct it.

Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

And the president is again trying to gaslight the public.

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A bio of Israel's first prime minister by a leading Israeli journalist views Ben Gurion as not only a committed Zionist but an early advocate of "Greater Israel" and, like those succeeding him, a steadfast enemy of rapprochement with Palestinians.