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If Biden and Harris are serious about addressing migration, they must go beyond the pitifully small increases in humanitarian aid to Central America to end more than 200 years of invasions that are at the root of these causes.

With shootings in the city on the rise, trust in the police has nearly bottomed out.

The U.S. death rate in 2020 was the highest above normal since the early 1900s — even surpassing the calamity of the 1918 flu pandemic.

The dozen donors gave a combined $3.4 billion to national candidates and causes.

If legendary jazz musicians were collected together in one giant jigsaw puzzle and each musician was one piece – Thelonious Monk’s individual piece would be impossible to cut out.

Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world.

The democratic socialist congresswoman explains why the U.S. needs to tackle systemic racism by investing in social programs, arguing that “police can’t be the answer to all these ills in our country.”

It would be hard for people in the United States to understand the emotional toll caused by having the economy upended if we weren’t living through a pandemic that upended everything. Venezuelan sanctions are like a pandemic going for years.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

For the first time, Richard Wright's 1942 novel about a wrongly accused Black man is seeing the light of day. Wright was testing the outer limits of what the white novel-reading public would have found imaginable.