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I was forced to come to terms with the fact that I was playing a leading role in a system that made desperate people wait months or longer to get care, or go deep into medical debt.

It didn’t need to. It shouldn’t have. But there’s a big reason why it thought it must.

Immigration activists prepare

Veterans For Peace is calling on US Senators to vote NO on Pete Hegseth for US Defense Secretary, should President-elect nominate him.

The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of genocide has attracted global attention. But in Israel, he faces a trial for corruption to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that could mean the end of his political career.

An edited and expanded version of remarks by Bill Fletcher, Jr. offered at “A Strategy for Labor, A CUNY Panel Discussion of Honor of Merle Ratner,” December 12, 2024

Neither major party candidate represented a challenge to U.S. complicity in Israel’s horrific war on the people and land of Gaza.

In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.

Progressive governments in Latin America are not as united today as they were a decade ago. How prepared are they to navigate the onslaught of a second Trump administration?

Genomic sleuthing can determine how many generations have passed since a hybridization event. The oldest human genomes ever sequenced reveal that our Neandertal ancestry came from one “pulse” of interbreeding and pins down the timing.