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The U.S. is one of the few wealthy countries in the world that does not have a robust public childcare program. But there’s no reason we can’t have one that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.

Waterloo was the site of a historic battle for labor rights and racial justice. But as the meatpacking industry changed, the workforce lost its power and was primed for an outbreak. This is how we got here.

The Right to Repair campaign is rooted in a strong conviction that we need urgent action to halt the growing overconsumption and the ever-shortening lifespans of our devices.

The marketisation of everything normalised the very real possibility that behind every communication, every representation, every action within any public sphere, was an undisclosed agenda of private gain.

The news is filled with “uplifting” human interest tales of workers walking six miles and nurses scrounging up sick leave. Injustice is so normalized that stories that should be enraging indictments of the system pass for heartwarming vignettes.

To undo the damage Trump has wrought at home and abroad, the US must move past outdated foreign policy ideas and resist traveling further down a failed course that divides the world into hostile camps, and prioritizes confrontation over cooperation.

The Poor People's Campaign and Congressional Progressive Caucus team up to chart a course for the future.

We need intelligence leaders who acknowledge that torture is illegal under international law; that it is inhumane; that it is ineffective; that it puts at risk U.S. military personnel captured by adversaries.

The Trump administration has carried out more executions than the previous 10 presidents combined.

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