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Bay of Pigs 2020 in Venezuela, and more international news and analysis

"If you're looking for a bold new idea for New York public schools," wrote congressional candidate Jamaal Bowman, "how about you just try fully funding them for once?"

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was on his regular run through Brunswick, Georgia, when he encountered an armed white father and son.

I’m a New York City subway conductor who had Covid-19. Now I’m going back to work.

Why Press Freedom Day? Is encrypted messaging the future of social media? And more media news

States must create health and safety councils—one way that ‘essential’ workers can begin to gain one essential they lack: power.

Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism.

“We cannot take any of their threats lightly,” said senior Venezuelan politician Diosdado Cabello. “What happened today,” he said, “is an example of the desperation” of the United States and its allies.

The right-wing vendetta against the Postal Service long predates the pandemic, but gutting it now has the potential to undermine the integrity of the November election. Yet establishment media seem remarkably uninterested in connecting the dots.

...white progressives and leftists underestimate the...power of strategically racist messaging, and fail to...engage in the communities the Right is targeting — white folks who are impacted by a system that consistently puts profits before people.