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Women worldwide speak as one

Individual Democrats have made strong statements against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. The bulk of the party and its leadership has offered silence or mealymouthed equivocation.

The message from Wisconsin to other states considering so-called voucher or private school “choice” programs: Beware. Well-funded right-wing forces have their eyes on dismantling our public schools.

In one, lawmakers are taxing the rich. In the other, they're rushing the rich a free pass at tax time.

"Trump and Elon Musk have aimed their wrecking ball at public schools and the futures of the 50 million students."

Filling in for services under attack

Citizens in half the states have the power to place initiatives or referendums on the ballot. That process is under threat, but in an era of partisan gerrymandering and unresponsive legislatures we must keep it viable.

While Trump fixates on the symbols of 19th-century power, he systematically dismantles the infrastructure of 21st-century American influence.

Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested in his Manhattan apartment and sent to Louisiana. His detention sets up a fight over free speech.

The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.