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Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry (1960), A Classic Ragtime Spiritual (1925)

Homelessness has doubled in the past four years, yet some observers still parrot top-down excuses for this increase.

It is the purpose of this article to relate how this creeping stagnation has added its own force in contributing to the monopoly power associated with consolidation and to current wealth disparities.

Donald Trump is doing everything he can to convince the world that, under his leadership, the United States is an unreliable trading partner.

More than 600 constituents of Jared Huffman and Mike Thompson have signed on as plaintiffs in a class action accusing them of helping to arm the Israeli military in violation of “international and federal law that prohibits complicity in genocide.”

The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate in the United States.

DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.

Over the last few decades, we have witnessed the growth of dynamic movements, like Stop the War. But we need to think about organisational outcomes, establishing networks and rebuilding a progressive political alternative.

"Germany is using a term that was designed to protect Jews as a weapon not only to silence Palestinians, but also to silence Jews and Israelis who criticize the occupation.”

While many of the policies in Project 2025 have been floating around Republican circles for years, the document is a roadmap that shows how its authors believe they can finally deliver on key pieces of their conservative Christian agenda.