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Texting Trouble; Pai's Problems; EFF's Big Wins; Pentagon Woos the Valley; Bye Bye Standard

To win substantive reforms, our system is overdue for structural reforms. 2018 creates an opening.

In walking out of their country en masse, Hondurans are making a loud, bold statement about the extreme injustices they face at home.

Two high-ranking police officials have dropped out of a planned training junket in Israel after campaigning from local human rights activists.

The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.

As I see it, the challenge ahead is to build progressive infrastructure everywhere we can, but especially in key states that were narrowly won by Trump in 2016 – Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania – and in key states such as North Carolina...

The U.S. aerial bombardment of the city of Raqqa, Syria, similar to its bombardment of Mosul, Iraq, was itself terror in the extreme, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. These are huge war crimes.

Unlike income inequality, wealth inequality along racial lines in the US has received relatively little attention. New evidence on the changing landscape of relative wealth among whites, blacks, and Hispanics between 1983 and 2016.

Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war

Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice