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Illinois is what I would call a quasi-slave state. And what’s surprising to people is that it existed here within the law. It begins with the colonial slave laws that came from France (because Illinois was a French territory).

How government commissions became alibis for inaction.

Five ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern

Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears.

Leading Palestinian sociologist Dr. Honaida Ghanim believes Israeli annexation will bring the Palestinian struggle back to basics, back to 1948. Rather than a struggle for statehood, it will become an anti-colonial struggle for justice and freedom.

Ending the pandemic was the only thing the government could have done to save the economy, Trump’s botched response means without a second massive federal intervention millions of US families who are just keeping their head above water will sink.

The exclusion of Black LGBT people in mainstream pride events have spawned alternative Black pride events. These alternative actions are reminders that queer liberation is Black liberation, and justice for Black lives translates into justice for all.

We need to come away from the current upheavals with organization, with vision and goals, with program and campaigns that all persist and mature and strengthen rather than folding back into business as usual.

We need to come away from the current upheavals with organization, with vision and goals, with program and campaigns that all persist and mature and strengthen rather than folding back into business as usual.

Marta draws up a balance sheet of the experiences of progressive governments in power at that time in South America, without sectarianism or triumphalism, and attentive to advances and contradictions.