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The political professionals remaining in the GOP insist that mail-in voting is part of their get-out-the-vote program even as Trump vilifies mail-in voting. To defeat Trump, pro-democracy voters need to actually get out the early and mail-in vote.

I Hate to See the Evenin' Sun Go Down (1914), Take National Defense Day and Shove It! (1924), Apartheid on the Skids (1989), Death of an Organizer (1929), Whose Streets? Our Streets! (1964), Big Win for Solidarity (1889), Moses of Her People (1849)

After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.

Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.

China is now Africa’s largest trading partner, with partnerships focused on building roads, railways and energy projects.

The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine and opens a path to forcing a change in US policy.

It’s clear that genes, receptors and neurons all play a role in detecting odors. But much of how we make sense of what we sniff remains mysterious. A neuroscientist explains. Q and A with Neurobiologist Peter Mombaerts.

'We were standing, visible to the army, just standing around not doing anything. Nothing was happening. I heard two shots,' says a fellow protester who also attended the demonstration where Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed.

We stand with the people of Ukraine and all victims of this war, who deserve peace, reconstruction and freedom as soon as possible. Nevertheless, one thing is clear: neither peace nor reconstruction and freedom will be possible without negotiation.

Educational inequality is a major issue, and change is necessary. But a takeover is not the answer. Too often, it is an instrument of conservative politicians wielded against local communities who find their voices shut out.