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Democracy not rearmament

The pope wanted to be judged as a voice of moral clarity, speaking out for the marginalized. He made that clear in his fight with Trump and Vance over immigration.

When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enrollment to squeeze profit out of childcare and now owns eight of the 11 largest companies.

Organizers team up with pro-democracy groups for flurry of actions to demand right to free, healthy lives

The United Auto Workers weren’t always in favor of tariffs; they earlier supported cross-border coordination to support better jobs and a peaceful future.

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”

Sinners is one of the most distinctive, confident mainstream films of the modern era.

"Pope Francis spoke plainly and with clarity about the climate crisis," said one environmental advocate.

Got Covid? Have You Tried Injecting Bleach? (2020), No Due Process for Armenians (1915), A Milestone for the Other-Abled (1920), A Dust Bowl Refugee Sings (1940), Harriet Tubman to the Rescue (1860), Don’t Mourn, Organize, Heart of Stone (2000)

The tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing. It's time to shed flawed assumptions about who Trump is and make sense of what he is doing.