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The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.

Watching the GOP’s circular firing squad during the speaker votes was entertaining, but what do progressive Democrats have to show for rallying round their party’s leadership?

Myanmar’s military junta is not short of partners. Indeed, business, notably in the arms market, continues unabated. Such conduct makes a mockery of the sanctio ns and injunctions imposed by the EU, United States and other states since the 2021 coup.

More than 25% of survey respondents have avoided care fearing how they would be treated, and nearly one third reported that they had been treated unfairly.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist calls for a global tax on high earners at 70% and a 2-3% wealth tax on large fortunes to combat widening inequality. He also talks about war profiteering, politicians who want more inequality and the sperm lottery.

Workers at the Science Museum of Minnesota have voted overwhelmingly to join together in a union with the AFSCME Council 5.

A U.S. startup carried out a geoengineering experiment in Mexico, which the country claims was done without prior notice and consent

The Russo-Ukrainian War and the rest of us.

The U.S. has only days to act before Netanyahu destroys the Israeli High Court.

Should China should be terrified that its population is now falling, as all our leading news outlets are telling us?