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Overwhelming odds, unexpected alliances and tough losses — defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement. From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics and organizing strategies.

Researchers worry the pandemic may have severe after-effects, with deaths of despair impacting more distressed and newly-vulnerable populations. Only a serious reform of American capitalism can address the kind of distress and insecurity that kills.

The congresswoman knows impunity for those who incited the Capitol attack just allows them to do the same, or worse, again. Impunity for the people who told the lie would amount to complicity in their conduct...

New year, new realities in Russia, China, Cuba and Vietnam

Six workers were killed in a chicken plant in Gainesville, Ga. The community is demanding answers.

Government needs to restore the competence of public systems and not wait for crises.

We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.

"Israel, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to provide vaccines to the Palestinian people," the first-term congressman asserted in a letter to Israel's acting consul general.

Fascism, conspiracy theories, the GOP, theocracy, white nationalism, loneliness, burnout, and other fun stuff

The pandemic and its mishandling are upending decades of economic orthodoxy in the US and across the West