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The workers laboring outside in this extraordinary heat are on the front lines of the climate crisis.

The Pulitzer-prize winning poet Stephen Dunn died last week on his 82nd birthday. This poem reminds us that if life isn’t fair, there’s still kindness, even love.

The Supreme Court decision gutting what’s left of VRA shows how desperately For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act needed.

Scientists are not as surprised by the disaster, for numerous reasons. While none of them is necessarily the sole cause of the condo collapse, any one or a combination of them might be implicated in whatever other causes are eventually found.

Some 25 states have already enacted or are considering laws to ban teaching what they call “critical race theory” (“CRT”) in public schools, a concept that school officials around the country deny they even teach.

Through her writings, Elizabeth Martínez inspired, provoked, educated, strategized, organized and built cross-racial and cross-ethnic alliances, all in pursuit of social justice.

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Local authorities ruled no more than three members of Local 120 may picket an entrance to the refinery at one time, but dozens of Teamsters show up to the main gate anyway and take turns on the line.

The late New Yorker staff writer focused on divided selves and the complexity of relationships. Adept with the power of words, she was unsentimental about them, writing as if one could say something crushing without leaving that person crushed.

The millions of service members who live on military bases around the world experience a kind of economic and social security that is foreign to most of America’s middle class. In the military, clothing, food, shelter, and medical care are guaranteed. And although it offers less choice about what to wear or where to live than the private sector, there’s a baseline of care for service members that doesn’t exist in the civilian world.