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After months of organizing that included the establishment of two protest encampments, Philadelphia’s unhoused people successfully pushed the city to agree to provide housing on a community land trust on October 14.

We must see real estate market for what it truly is: an institution rooted in settler colonialism that allows land (and the housing that sits atop it) to be distributed and controlled by those who have enough money for their preferences to matter.

If the president wins again, we have so much more to lose.

In this joint report, ACLED and MilitiaWatch map militia activity across the United States and assess the risk of violence going into the 2020 election.

Fauci's restraint on long-running rift with the White House appeared to have evaporated in a Washington Post interview published Saturday night

That five justices on the Supreme Court appear very open to upend two centuries of established law, to help an historically unpopular and authoritarian president cling to power is itself ample reason for Democrats to reform the court itself.

The number of close races, the potential for runoffs, and the influx of mail-in and absentee voters mean it could be weeks or months before knowing which party will control the Senate.

New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.

Janine Jackson interviewed True North Research’s Lisa Graves about what’s behind the Amy Coney Barrett nomination for the October 16, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Low-income voters could decide this election. These neighborhood activists are working to make it happen.