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What Israel fears more than suicide bombings, Hamas rockets, and stone throwers, is a genuinely nonviolent resistance movement that insists on self-determination, democracy, equality, peace, and justice for all.

Taking a knee is in the best American tradition of protest.

These times demand to know who you are and what you believe. You can’t run from that. You can’t split the difference. As ABC just learned to its chagrin, when you fail to make that choice, you make that choice.

A new Harvard study published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that at least 4,645 deaths can be linked to the hurricane and its immediate aftermath, making the storm far deadlier than previously thought.

We can’t say a world without police wouldn’t work when the places that supposedly “need” police have never received adequate resources to thrive.

Net Neutrality: act now!; Google joins the military industrial complex; Robots profiling; Net neutrality – the stakes; Chicago goes 1984; Trump and Twitter in the courts

Soldiers, civilians, and the 140 million Americans who are poor or low-income pay the price for our never-ending wars

In 1970, postal workers went on strike and provoked a national crisis for the United States government. Their rebellion holds lessons for labor today.

NFL tells players patriotism is more important than protest – here’s why that didn’t work during WWI

Barbara Ehrenreich’s radical critique of wellness and self-improvement