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In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92.

For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American imperialism.

What can medical workers do to stop genocide?

When you ignore context, public health suffers.

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists

The spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago is still in our in our culture, in our hearts and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s something that’s so restorative, so confirmational. No, we're not gone.

Sewa demonstrates how crucial it is that all co-op members – whether professionals or grassroots workers – share the values that the federation represents, and think not just of personal benefits but benefits for the collective and all its members.

In rural Wisconsin, which voted heavily for Trump, some farmers who support Trump don’t believe he intends to deport their hardworking employees — that his targets are criminals. But Trump made all undocumented immigrants a priority for deportation.

A lawsuit from major fossil fuel groups aims to derail Vermont’s groundbreaking plan to make polluters pay for climate disasters.