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The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.

A GOP presidential and congressional win in 2024 would bring a national abortion ban, national right to work law; more tax cuts for the rich; an eliminationist program for transgender people; Jim Crow 2; a new McCarthyism and COINTELPRO for the left.

With no judicial oversight, this self-serving government can use its powers to fire and appoint anyone it wants, use public resources for pet projects and otherwise abuse its power. Israel is a very different country than the one founded 75 years ago

The Socialist may remain prime minister if he can cobble together enough support from wildly different political groups.

Good journalism demands one-on-one encounters with candidates, questions that speak to people’s actual concerns, real-time factchecking. If candidates can’t agree to a platform that holds them accountable, they don’t deserve a media platform at all.

Hundreds of proven, decades-old vital drugs that can be produced inexpensively are difficult or impossible to find due to the profit incentives that govern drug production. These shortages have serious medical consequences, but there are solutions.

Alabama tries to ban the NAACP in 1956. Freedom Summer under the gun in 1964. Cigarette health warning in 1965. Protesters killed in DC in 1932. "Fight for 15" in 2013. Federal health insurance for some in 1965. Black Power in 1966.

Record temperatures in much of the U.S. threatening more people in prisons.

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

The White House will not cut aid to Israel or stop cooperation overnight, but the day America treats Israel like any other country is nearer than we think.