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With so many good people feeling depressed, let’s point to the positive things that happened, even in this really, really bad year.

"As the winds of war are blowing in our world," Pope makes appeal for an end to conflicts that impact the world's children."

"RJ is a model not just for women of color, nor just for achieving reproductive freedom. RJ is a model for organizing for human equality and well-being," writes author Dorothy Roberts in her foreword to the new anthology.

Thousands of Arab Bedouins in Israel's Negev desert are denied power, water, sewage, and roads by the state. And their villages are under constant threat of demolition.

There are 23 million people around the world displaced from the only homes they've ever known.

As the US media obsesses about Russia’s involvement in the U.S. elections, it is ignoring nearly everything else about the Putin government’s role in the world. But recent warnings from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the Trump administration is dangerously escalating the North Korean crisis deserve serious attention.

“We’re at a crucial historical juncture, where literally the fate of the planet hangs by a thread,” says rocker Tom Morello. “We are musicians, so our message is in the mosh pit.”

The Amazon boss is funding a war on combat

Corporate America might regret calling the president’s bluff.

This US professor is counting on British data privacy laws to get some answers.