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No Free Speech on Christmas (1919), Killing Babies Is the Ugliest War Crime (1969), Can the Media Help Defend Democracy Again? (1974), Young Lords Speak Truth to Power (1969), A Highway to Nowhere (1949), Russia’s Leader for 25 Years (since 1999)

Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.

Musk got the only thing that he wanted. Does Trump realize it?

Yechiel Leiter, a hardcore settler leader once involved in Meir Kahane's fascist Jewish Defense League, will be Israel's next ambassador to the U.S. He will use his role to advocate for one of his long-time goals: Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

Eighty years ago, Korematsu v. United States upheld the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The racism and hysteria that fueled that decision are still with us today.

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

Frances Perkins’s work to build FDR’s New Deal sparked the modern American state. She recognized that the central purpose of government was not to protect property; it was to protect the communities of people who lived in the nation.

On the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster -- with a death toll of over 20,000 -- Senator Jeff Merkley, Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Rashida Tlaib introduced a resolution designating December 3 as National Chemical Disaster Awareness Day.

A commitment to the well-being of whole generations, from children to grandparents demand that we stop this forcible separation of families, and as we work to abolish systems, that we support one another, meeting needs together, loudly and proudly. 

In November 2024 Massachusetts voters ended the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System as the graduation requirement for students.