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The movement to save democracy from threats is too quick to overlook the problems that have been present since the founding.

Police are investigating the assault as a potential hate crime as advocates call for local leaders to back a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Woody Guthrie Museum has done a public service spotlighting Ochs’s career. Phil Ochs’s biting commentaries remain resonant in an era where the U.S. government provokes wars overseas and sends young men to fight and die on dubious grounds.

Conservatives are launching a new battle to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

Victory over climate deniers sends a strong message in defense of climate science and scientists.

Negative views of the economics of immigration are all wrong. Far from taking jobs away, foreign-born workers have played a key role in America’s recent success at combining fast growth with a rapid decline in inflation.

Palestinians and Israelis who’ve experienced the settlers’ attacks first-hand see the move as a positive but wholly insufficient step toward accountability.

To reach 270, Biden needs to win either Pennsylvania, or Georgia + Michigan.

The simple reality is that the future of American democracy is as much on the line now as it was in 1866. That was lost in yesterday’s arguments, but should have been central to them.