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Realizing how fast our healthcare system is overwhelmed should trigger demands for deep sustained cuts in an engorged security budget. But the obscene cost of the world’s military hegemon exists on the edge of most Americans’ self-understanding.

Huerta’s approach to activism is to take it day by day, victory by victory. Building a movement is the work of a lifetime; it takes time, commitment and hope.

Alatorre remained active even as she turned 90, participating in amnesty marches and holding citizenship classes. To the end, she insisted that activists forsake their differences as well as glory to work for el pueblo.

Now is the time for all labor organizations committed to forging a better society for working people to step up and help launch workers into the kinds of fights needed to win that future.

The new contact tracing tool is an essential part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But it raises serious questions of its own.

Mr. Pizza, whose wife was serenaded by Trump at Mar-a-Lago, is a hydroxychloroquine dealer

In a normal month, nurses might see two to three codes in this ICU. Now, at the height of the coronavirus crisis in NYC, they see six or more a day.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, would take effect immediately and remain in place until the HSS Secretary certifies to Congress that a FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine is widely available

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