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Since India’s farmers protests began last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu nationalist government has tried to violently suppress them, revealing how close “the world’s largest democracy” is to becoming an authoritarian state.

Critics of California’s new age-based vaccination scheme say it defies the evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread, and fear largely minority essential workers will fall even further back in the vaccine queue.

By sizable margins, more Americans also say business corporations and the military will lose than gain influence, though about a quarter (24%) say corporations will be unaffected and 32% say the same about the military.

Pultizer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown speaks to this critical moment—“the single item on the agenda”—that inspires hope at “this American hour of our lives.”

Even in a pandemic, 64 billionaires have seen incredible gains from the major league sports teams they own.

Recognizing that enslaved men, women and children built many of the cities, rail lines and ports that fuel the American economy is a necessary part of any accounting for the legacy of slavery.

Scholars on the Nazis and anti-Semitism have seen this before

The wild variety of grassroots organizers hoping to give the nudge to the senator all agree on one thing: The old ways won’t work.

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The tragedy of American science lies in its drive for private profit over improving the human condition, resulting in Big Science being irredeemably corrupted by Big Money, poisoning the air, the water, the food we eat, and the medicines we take.