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LGBTQ advocates say it's clear that Republicans are using these bills to fire up their base and win votes ahead of the November midterms.

We are debating legislation to provide some $53 billion in corporate welfare with no strings attached to the highly profitable micro-chip industry.

This month marks one year since 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers of America went on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama following the failure of the union and company to agree on a labor contract. The strike continues today.

The direct environmental impacts of global military operations carried out by just one nation are enormous, and these impacts only get worse when we include other nations’ military operations as well.

Cuba continues to face great challenges, and many problems remain to be solved. Yet it’s clear that Díaz-Canel is leading a renewal of the Cuban Revolution in a process that seeks to face many complex challenges by empowering local leaders.

On justice, impunity and ridicule: the historic outcome of the 2022 trial in Burkina Faso against Thomas Sankara’s killers.

The New York of Bernie Sanders's childhood was full of Yiddish socialists. Often, these were Jews of Sanders's sort, their spiritual practice less fixated on giving glory to God on high than fighting for emancipation here on earth. Although that interpretation of Judaism may seem profane, even blasphemous, at first blush, it has a firm basis in scripture.

“Which is worse: a poor, uneducated young man who sells drugs because he sees no other opportunity, or a multimillionaire executive, at the pinnacle of his power, who decides to subject his workers to a daily game of Russian roulette? ...

Natalie Moore tells the history of how racial segregation came about in Chicago and considers a variety of ways through which it might be reversed.

Even if discussions of police brutality typically revolve around shootings of unarmed individuals, the fact is cops don't have to physically harm or even arrest people to do lasting damage.