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I’m a doctor for teenagers. Attempted rape Is not a normal part of teen behavior. Christine Blasey Ford’s story is one of sexual assault and attempted rape, not “boys being boys.” What life was like as a girl in Montgomery County in the early 1980s.

Brazilian Women Represent, Corbyn and Antisemitism, Cuba and Racism, Québec Solidaire, Left Unity in India, Poland's Rising Star, South African Workers Divided

From the outset of his papacy, Francis sought to alter the landscape by vocalizing how capitalism is the primary cause of social injustice. In doing so he became a marked man. We’re witnessing one site in the larger struggle for cultural terrain.

Jeremy Corbyn at Britain's Labour Party Conference announces a radical plan to rebuild and transform Britain as an alternative to the politics of austerity, of social division and international conflict.

I know what happened at prep school parties in the 1980s. The Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge allegations are upsettingly familiar.

Every leap forward for American democracy — from slavery’s abolition to women’s suffrage to minimum-wage laws to the Civil Rights Acts to gay marriage — has been traceable to the revolutionary river, not the resistance.

Vote Busters; The Kavanaugh Test; Farmers F**ked Again; Co-opting Pan-Africanism; Jordan Peterson Without Tears; Sisters Rebuild

Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class.

The fact is that our country is failing on many of the things we hold most dear. And it’s getting worse. America is mired in a social progress recession.

Former UN secretary general accuses ‘powerful’ health interests in the US of blocking universal healthcare