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How nuclear weapons gradually became a key part of international relations.

King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

Nurses at Mount Sinai South Nassau voted by a majority to join the New York State Nurses Association. The approximately 800 nurses at South Nassau represent the last non-union facility in the entire Mount Sinai health system.

Taxes must be increased for the ultra-rich as a “strategic precondition to reducing inequality and resuscitating democracy,” Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International said.

A pair of democratic socialists have formed the state’s first socialist caucus since the 1930s.

Left out of GOP debates about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights leaders for most of the 20th century. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the targets.

The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.

In the wake of neo-fascist coup attempts — and the ongoing threat they pose in the U.S. and Brazil — it’s worth revisiting historical analogies on how to challenge the fascist plague before it metastasizes, endangering people the world over.

Just as visible light and x-rays are used to study biosamples, cells, and atoms, high-energy photons can be used to probe gluons inside of atomic nuclei.