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Choosing sides in the longest, hottest summer

“The company has promised to create 2,500 new jobs that it says will pay an average annual wage of just $45,000 a year,” Good Jobs First points out, “while reaping subsidies of $3.4 million per job.”

The campaign is vexing some of the family in no small part because of how central public health and vaccine access were to the Kennedy agenda, and particularly to his uncle Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, called health care “the cause of my life.”

Decades after a chilling racist massacre, Tulsa’s Greenwood district was bulldozed for I-244 – but a new plan aims to reverse its punishing effects

One of the Vermont senator's amendments would require the Pentagon to return a portion of its budget if it fails another audit.

You don’t want to be in the Iraq that this country invaded in what was, in essence, a giant oil grab and helped turn into a land of overheated rubble, dust, sand, drought, and increasingly over-the-top temperatures.

Rereading The Fire Next Time after the death of Michael Brown, and then again after that of George Floyd, changed the book for me—because those events had changed me. I want my students to have that same opportunity in their own time, not just mine.

Veterans resign from the Florida State Guard force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’

And now they don’t want to pay their employees.

Jelly Roll Morton's hit single in 1923. Women's Rights Convention in 1848. Disability rights a winner in 1968. Prepaid comprehensive healthcare in 1945. Investigation smoke and mirrors in 2004. Prisoner abuse in 2006. Civil disobedience in 1846.