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Jim Crow’s Brutal Defenders (1965), Free At Last, Free At Last! (1865), ‘Her Power Shall Rest on the Strength of Her Freedoms’ (1960), Simpler Than, and Just as True as E = mc2 (1940), Happy Birthday, Industrial Workers of the World!

This is a "political purity tests for people who risked their lives for this country," wrote one veterans group.

In the early days of the Gilded Age’s rush for profit, freed people’s savings were siphoned off by politically connected financiers. Justene Hill Edwards’s Savings and Trust uncovers how finance cloaked dispossession in the language of uplift.

Progressive candidates and researchers say his approach can win the U.S. back from Trumpism.

Faced with the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the systematic deprivation of Palestinians’ right to health, Israel’s medical establishment has disregarded the field’s most basic ethical principles.

UnitedHealth Group’s investors were profiting from its high denial rates. Now, they’re suing to ensure that doesn’t change.

From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.

“If you, as a climate activist, don’t also fight for a free Palestine and an end to colonialism and oppression all over the world, then you should not be able to call yourself a climate activist“

Most of the world agrees that apartheid inside a country’s borders is the epitome of injustice. Why, then, are we so ready to accept a global version of it?

Under any interpretation, Israel's attack is clearly illegal under international law, not that anyone seems to care anymore. Israel's attack on Iran is best understood as a continuation of its attempt to remake the Middle East through force.