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In the mid-1990s Saro-Wiwa and MOSOP denounced the military junta for failing to enforce regulations on oil companies. They were given a summary trial, then rushed to the gallows.

Health insurance companies are asking state regulators to approve eye-popping rate increases nationwide — reaching 66 percent for some policies.

James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.

For the first time in its history, the NAACP declined to invite the sitting president. Nor was Vice President JD Vance asked to attend. The organization invited Trump to its conventions during his first term in office, which he turned down.

If Mamdani loses, the leadership of the Democratic Party will redouble its push to field empty neoliberal suits in 2026. Harriman’s defeat in LA in 1911 set back the cause of working-class politics for decades.

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There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction. But it’s actually about the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America.

Killing funding to CPB is expected to have devastating effects for many public radio and TV stations. CPB grants keep smaller stations — including many in Trump-loving rural America — afloat.

In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.

A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs, written, performed and recorded by Woody himself in a “home studio” that eerily foreshadows TikTok. Among the songs is a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.”