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A new study makes the connection between Arctic warming and extreme cold waves like the Texas freeze of February 2021. What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay there.

Nelson Mandela visited the island nation in 1991. His interactions with Fidel Castro would inform some of his negotiations with the National Party to end apartheid.

Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond.

Steve Bannon urged his followers to take over local-level GOP positions, inspiring thousands of Trump supporters to take control of the Republican Party at the local level and to reshape how elections are run.

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By striking down the CDC's eviction moratorium, said one critic, the Supreme Court "sided with rich corporate landlords that are itching to kick out vulnerable families."

In just 20 years, the total cost of the US increasing homeland security and waging wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere since Sept. 11, 2001, have exceeded $8 trillion, according to new estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University.

America’s longest war has been by any measure a costly failure, and the errors in managing the conflict deserve scrutiny in the years to come. But Joe Biden doesn’t “own” the mayhem on the ground right now.