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Middle Class Often Taxed on Unrealized Capital Gains

In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.

Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human embryos to study development, fertility and therapies. They are entering uncharted ethical territory.

Lots of young people are challenging and questioning the very nature of democracy, the nature of the system which exists, where one court after the other has said this genocide must stop, yet U.S. pressure allows Netanyahu to continue.

This is the best economy for Black Americans in generations, but that’s not enough to close the racial wealth divide on its own.

We need to realise a project that puts peace and freedom at the heart of EU policy. We must act to ensure prosperity for all, to protect welfare, and to defend labour, which ever since Maastricht has never been sufficiently represented.

Why is a private equity firm reaping the benefits of hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies while taking over Minor League Baseball?

Amnesty Calls for Leonard Peltier’s Freedom as He Turns 80 Behind Bars

A daily dose of the common medication metformin preserved cognition and delayed decline of some tissues

Why did so many journalists describe the debate similarly? Matt Taibbi, a popular commentator who has migrated from liberal-hating leftist to liberal-hating Trump apologist, suggests the entire news media was taking orders from the Democratic Party.