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As of last week, Republican efforts to ban birth control in America have officially started, and teenagers in Texas are its first victims

If you think the crisis of American democracy is over, the circus in the House should remind you that a significant portion of the Republican Party has no interest in governing, policy, or democracy itself.

A new year of MAGA madness and subversive pop

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rose to power on the promise of massive redistribution. So far, he has nationalized lithium stores and lifted the minimum wage by 20%. But to secure these reforms he’ll need to transform the power structures of the Mexican state and media.

“WNBA players need to be valued in their country and they won’t have to play overseas.”

"Still not sworn in because the Republicans are having a hard time picking their leader," said Democratic Rep.-elect Maxwell Alejandro Frost. "This is a snapshot of how they'll operate for the next two years."

Sanders’ well-chronicled antagonism toward lobbyists has some concerned they’ll be unable to blunt criticism of their clients’ profits or corporate executive salaries.

The seals are enduring the consequences of human activity in more than one way. Is it too much to ask that we give them a chance?

How authentic protest movements like the one in Iran can be hijacked by a funded opposition that builds momentum for war and military intervention.

There is no dividing line between the Russian “quasi-liberals” of the 90s and the ideology of Russian imperialism today. They are aligned politically and economically, the first easily spilling over over into the second.