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What does a Long Island Republican who ran to replace George Santos have in common with a Westchester Democrat in a solidly blue congressional district? More than 60 donors who, all told, have given both candidates more than $230,000.

The “greatest teacher of nonviolence in America” was a mentor to generations of activists, from Martin Luther King Jr. to today’s union organizers and immigrant rights campaigners.

We face a second insurrection today, and most people have no idea how closely it’s modeled on the first one. The new GOP motto might as well be, “We don’t need no stinkin’ issues; we just want power and revenge for the heroes of the Old South.”

Benjamin Netanyahu's eye-rolling video, in which he accused the Americans of holding up an arms shipment and yet again evoked Winston Churchill, is him playing politics – it's the only thing he knows how to do.

Can a left electoral front beat the far right in France?

Trump says he is a “friend of the working class” – but he’s anything but. Read on to learn why.

Some historians have described the South's convict leasing system as “worse than slavery,” because there was no incentive to avoid working those people to death.

"If we don't fully understand and account for slavery's history in this country, we won't understand how it shaped the political, economic and social infrastructure of this country and the landscape of inequality today."

"This man should not be addressing Congress," said the New York Democrat. "He is a war criminal."