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America’s wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and more — along with our endless involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan — have created a weapons-saturated politics of policing, border control and mass incarceration. This reshaping is not one-dimensional...

From time to time, Vladimir Putin or one of his cronies has hinted that the Russians, pressed to the wall, might use a “tactical” nuclear weapon in Ukraine. And Russian military leaders have reportedly been discussing just such a possibility.

Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about the direction of the occupation state.

Andrew Tripp has organized more than 100,000 people in Vermont and 20 other states, and has coached Nordic skiing, track and field, and cross-country running, outside of Montpelier, Vermont. In 2021, he was named top boys' coach in the country.

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International Women’s Day is next week, when we celebrates the achievements of women in numerous walks of life–individual women who broke the proverbial glass ceiling and achieved success in careers and professions from which they had been excluded.

Mine workers at the Warrior Met coal mine in Alabama who walked off the job in April 2021 just decided to end their strike and go back to work.

Media portrayals of the mass protests in response to the killing of 18 year-old Michael Brown obscure the serious human rights issue of police violence against African-Americans. Many press reports characterized the protests as a "mob reaction," instead of a "justifiable outpouring of community anger and grief." The media is "doing incalculable damage" by not placing the outpouring of community outrage in Ferguson and beyond in its "political and historical context."

The immigrant workers who helped rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are the targets of systematic civil rights violations. The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has launched a series of race-based immigration raids wherever Latinos in New Orleans gather. And those immigrant workers who are organizing to stop what they charge are "unconstitutional, race-based, stop-and-frisk style raids" are being targeted for deportation.

Market Basket workers don’t have a union. But they achieved in three weeks what few unions have accomplished in recent years: They stood up to their multibillion-dollar employer, won local and national sympathy for their struggle, and stayed united. Boston Globe 8/12/14