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This is not the time to pull up the (national) hatches and speak simply of the fight against the virus inside our own borders.

When I learned about restorative justice, it was a real epiphany because it integrated for the first time the lawyer, the warrior, and the healer in me.

If the (Democratic) Party continues to resist real change, then is the time ripe for a third party after the election? Calling for this new party, I represent no organization nor any mass base; just an old-timer with...historical perspective.

The conveners of the People’s Bailout have gained political initiative by crafting an empowering framework and pushing it out to tens of thousands ready to agitate and organize.

The health, economic well-being, and very lives of the American people depend upon Congress putting people over profit and enacting a bold and far-reaching relief package now.

During this dark and horrible moment here and across the globe, I’ve been sending out a streaming version of the Following the Ninth to anyone who might find it useful, an uplifting message in a bottle as it were. — KERRY CANDAELE

Millions of displaced Venezuelans are at enormous risk in Latin America, and Trump’s decision to threaten the Maduro regime right now is going to make things much worse.

A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu

The GOP’s decade-long war on voting rights is making it harder to hold fair elections as COVID-19 spreads

We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.