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The recent election results make it clear that although Nicolás Maduro won by a wide margin on May 20, there exists a significant majority made up of those who voted for the opposition and those who dd not vote in these elections.

As discontent with the Ortega presidency spreads across Nicaragua, a small student movement has grown to include a diverse array of oppositional movements and private sector actors, each with their own political agenda.

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Public funding, private management — these four words sum up American-style privatization whether applied to airports, prisons, or elementary and secondary schools.

Regardless of his motives, Kennedy will be responsible for allowing Trump to name a replacement who, along with the other right-wingers on the court, will further erode American democracy.

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Would the US be better off helping stabilize the Chinese economy, rather than gearing up for a trade war?

Puerto Rico was already in trouble after suffering a “lost decade” without economic growth after 2005, leading to a default on its public debt and mass migration from the island. That was before Hurricane Maria.

Felicia Langer was a Holocaust survivor, a communist, and one of the first Israeli lawyers to defend Palestinian residents of the occupied territories in the Israeli Supreme Court. She died in Germany last week.

Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won't allow it to continue. June 30 we're rallying in Washington DC and around the country to tell Donald Trump stop separating kids from their parents.