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Citizen-led ballot measures in recent years have been used in various states to expand Medicaid, preserve abortion rights and raise minimum wages. The most common topic for veto referendums over the years has been taxation.

"Every American deserves to live in a safe, vibrant, and environmentally conscious community—including public housing residents," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Do the right thing; make your family and forebears proud.

Unions Set Back by Troops (1904), A Century of Young People's Concerts (1924), Brazilian Fascists Get the Nod (1964), Freedom on the Slow Road (1799), Big Money in Bananas (1899), Good Trouble on Stage (1949), Agrarian Communism 'Way Back When (1649)

"Israel's genocide on the Palestinians in Gaza is an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler-colonial process of erasure."

Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.

Tomorrow, Senegal votes in an election that French-backed president Macky Sall repeatedly delayed. The fact that the election is going ahead is a victory for young and poor Senegalese, whose protests resisted elites’ democratic backsliding.

Deteriorating working conditions have led to a shift in perspective, sparking an unprecedented wave of worker activism.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

Black holes are weird already, but it turns out that the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy is a particularly weird one