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“Ninety years ago, FDR [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] established the New York Power Authority to create power for the people. Today we reclaim that power, by the passage of The Build Public Renewables Act

The agency has sued both Binance and Coinbase for violating securities law.

If we are to save our democracy, we must increase the influence of everyday people, of the workers who make corporations run. Worker power is the only counterbalance to corporate power.

A people's tribune's birthday. Opposing the Vietnam War in 1968. Opposing U.S. imperialism in 1898. Debs' 1918 sedition conviction. A win for abolitionists in 1833. Boycotting Jim Crow in 1953. Thousands say, 'Escalate the war on poverty!' in 1968.

Wake up: Trump has fundamentally reshaped the electorate. This is good news for the fight against MAGA fascism.

Although Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought a strong case, he still faces significant challenges.

Scientists are increasingly seeing evidence of “dark extinction” in museum and botanical garden collections.

Claudia Tate’s 1983 collection of interviews is an important look into the trials writers like Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou faced on their way to mainstream acceptance

Brazil’s president wants economic and political bloc to benefit region. Leaders from South America’s 12 nations are meeting in Brazil. Their host president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is calling for more unity and even a new single currency.

What peanut trading in late 19th century Senegal tells us about the fine line between slavery and freedom.