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Activists speak of their dismay at renewed patrols to enforce wearing of the hijab, but insist protests will continue ahead of the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death

“He asked me to lower my pants and placed the stethoscope down there,” Viviana said. “He would make lewd faces while doing that. I froze and stared into the void. I couldn’t understand why he did that to me.”

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A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

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.