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As the NBA playoffs begin, all-time basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jaabar reflects on the love/hate relationship he has had with his own body as he and it have aged in the years since he retired.

While Paxton burns—or simmers or escapes entirely—intra-party fighting and dirty laundry airing be damned, the USA’s largest, richest, and most powerful wing of the GOP have screwed Texas on such a large, systemic scale that they'll still prevail.

Advocates of "peace now" in Ukraine would do well to listen to what Ukrainian and Russian progressives have to say.

This bill cuts programs for the most vulnerable, and is totally unnecessary – why doesn’t Biden invoke the 14th amendment?

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The Fed’s pursuit of its 2% inflation target will slow economic growth, repress wage gains, make almost everyone’s job less secure, and put us at risk for a recession.

A resounding victory in the primary race to be the next Allegheny County Executive shows that bold candidates can defy conventional wisdom by taking on the fossil fuel industry in its own backyard.

By failing to push back on problematic definitions of antisemitism, the White House is missing a golden opportunity in the fight against hate.