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New York lawmakers must step up. With support from lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul, CUNY and SUNY can once again reach the forefront of higher education, helping communities across New York tackle the most pressing challenges we face as a state.

This morning, as the Supreme Court heard the most serious challenge to abortion rights in decades, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered a stirring series of questions challenging the attempt to upend a person’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy.

Honduras now, Brazil soon... the Pink Tide is back! And the worldwide campaign to end violence against women

The idea that anti-racist is a code word for “anti-white” is the claim of avowed extremists.

Neoliberals say that inflation is caused by high social spending and good wages, and that working-class people must sacrifice these to bring prices down. But there are other causes of inflation, and solutions that don’t pit us against ourselves.

Critics slammed Biden's decision to invite the leader of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan president to an ostensibly pro-democracy gathering.

When the all-male supreme court ruled to protect abortion rights in 1973, activists didn’t foresee the fight that lay ahead

Coverage of the Rittenhouse murder trial, and more dirt from Media Land

In 1947, Latin American countries led by Guatemala played a crucial role in passing UN Resolution 181, setting in motion the goal of partition in historic Palestine. However, Cuba's anti-colonial history offers an alternative

All signs now point to a full-court press by the GOP to rig state election rules in a bid to stay in power permanently. So far, Democrats have barely put up a fight.