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Arsène Tchakarian was the last surviving member of a Communist military unit in the French Resistance. Mainly Jews and immigrants, they risked everything to fight the Nazi occupation.

Don’t fall for the tired and defeatist notion of “the powerful always win, so what’s the use?” We proved that the powerful can lose. -- Michael Withey

My colleagues and I thought that if the brain is able to read these molecular records when writing its long-term memories, we should be able to read them, too.

If politics is the art of the possible, then radicalism must be the capacity to imagine new possibilities

Representation alone isn’t enough to make a show political. You have to do something with it. Claws finds a way to tie its characters to a broader political narrative in almost every episode.

A rule proposed recently by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, under the Trump administration, would prohibit home health aides who are paid directly by Medicaid from having their union dues automatically deducted.

The national debt today stands at $15.7 trillion. Two decisions made since 2000 — tax cuts and America’s wars since September 11, 2001 — together account for roughly two-thirds of that amount.

Missouri voters sent a strong pro-worker message Tuesday by overturning an anti-union law.

President Trump’s long-time love affair with asbestos is making its way into federal policy

The gap between the hype and the reality of the proposed new branch of the military makes the project almost entirely an exercise in misleading branding.