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More than 5 million teenagers take care of older adults as part of their day, including nearly a third of high school students in at least one state. Their numbers may grow if Medicaid gets cuts.

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

Milk is a target in the Trump administration’s homophobic crusade, part of a broader effort to eliminate recognition of people who fought discrimination against women, people of color, and LGBTQ Americans, including those who served in the military

Quaise Energy demo-ed its maser drill bit to go deeper into the Earth's crust than humans have ever gone. The plan is to drill down 12 miles, where temperatures reach nearly 1,000 degrees F, to tap into Earth's bottomless well of clean energy.

The row between the US president and his billionaire ex-buddy may seem entertaining, but wealth and power are still dangerously merged. Politics remains in thrall to money. Democracy requires better safeguards than rampant egos.

The question of who gets a say is not a sideshow. It is Harvard’s defining issue. A university that silences students and sidelines faculty becomes reactive, brittle, and beholden. A university that distributes power, though, becomes resilient.

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The ADL is project to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, is also a leader in promoting anti-BDS policies, has also taken a leadership role in the attack on ethnic studies in California.

From big cities to small towns, citizens will declare “no” to authoritarianism on Donald Trump’s birthday

Building a progressive populist movement requires Democrats to talk about Wall Street, which most are reluctant to do. If they’re going to benefit from the public’s anti-oligarch turn, however, they’re going to have Bernie-fy themselves.