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Many workers with COVID-19 still—still!—can’t afford to isolate, because they don’t have paid sick leave.

The Bronx apartment fire that recently killed 17 people was a devastating tragedy. It is also the entirely predictable outcome of a housing market that forces tenants to grovel for basic repairs while landlords rule as something close to kings.

Oliver Stone’s new documentary film presents a full and meticulously constructed presentation of the physical evidence which clearly supports his assassination conspiracy theory.

Hard looks at SCOTUS and democracy in crisis

Releasing the carbon stored in vulnerable ecosystems could push global warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius

Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a racially integrated America might still be far off. But some cities are finally atoning for past racial sins and enacting policies to dismantle segregation

Manchin abandoned single parents, unable to afford child care, to poverty. He threw seniors, struggling to pay for prescriptions and health care, under the bus.

The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials. Then the team was dismantled.

King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today.

The Vice President has constitutional rights, too. By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote.