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A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs, written, performed and recorded by Woody himself in a “home studio” that eerily foreshadows TikTok. Among the songs is a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.”

In 1945, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico worked feverishly to complete the first atomic bomb. Meanwhile, their colleagues at the University of Chicago mounted a final, ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent its use.

Killing funding to CPB is expected to have devastating effects for many public radio and TV stations. CPB grants keep smaller stations — including many in Trump-loving rural America — afloat.

There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction. But it’s actually about the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America.

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"Working people deserve leaders who will fight for them, not grovel at the feet of their billionaire donors," said Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party, one of the groups involved in the new coalition.

Where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall.

A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza. My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold. Inspiring terror, as a tactic, is openly acknowledged.