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The right to criticize the powerful is a cornerstone of democracy. In Trump’s America, it’s cause for a prison sentence.

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Fear still fuels the bail reform debate, but new data from Illinois show that holding on to cash bail may make communities less safe.

As people move away from flooding and heat, new research suggests that those who remain will be older, poorer and more vulnerable.

University of Maryland cannot block Students for Justice in Palestine from holding campus event for Gaza, judge rules

The polling follow a Republican push to change Nebraska rules to boost GOP nominee Donald Trump's chances of winning in November.

Local paper bursts lies about Haitian immigrants – Who’s listening?

Gen Z is left to deal with massive systemic failures—climate change, pandemics, and genocide—as individuals. Why are we shocked then that they are prioritizing their own physical and mental health? No one else is doing so.

Already we can draw two big lessons from Hurricane Helene’s catastrophic fallout.

Strike – first by port workers on US east coast since 1977 – threatens to shut down ports from Maine to Texas