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The shooting of a man who was ‘running while Black’ has prompted calls for racial justice in the US beyond the guilty verdict of his murderers.

In addition to elections officials across the country being subjected to death threats from voters who have been duped by the Big Lie of election fraud, Wisconsin Republicans are now threatening them with felony charges.

Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government’s deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine, and it's poised to help millions around the world.

These include good governance in health, housing and food, an improving economic situation, a (mostly) united left, a divided opposition, and an opposition that is extremely unpopular.

Inflation is a lie, communism is fun, and twerking is important

The for-profit, private company Library Systems and Services is a major threat to one of our most beloved, democratic and socialistic institutions.

The rank-and-file reform slate Teamsters United has secured victory in the union’s internal election. Its agenda is modest: bargain hard against UPS, organize Amazon, push the PRO Act, and revitalize the labor movement.

Across Ohio, tactics pioneered in Texas are being deployed in disruptive city council meetings

Jurors found the main organizers of the deadly right-wing rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law, awarding more than $25 million in damages, but deadlocked on federal conspiracy charges.

The media equation between “woke” and anything vaguely in the realm of social justice allows the right to paint moderate liberal ideas as fringe—an East Coast and California counterculture that is woefully out of step with straight white America.