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A fresh round of lawsuits paid for by labor opponents pick up where the Supreme Court left off when it blocked a key source of funding.

In my whole 65 years I have never heard about 4 members of the UN Security Council meeting without the US and with the express purpose of outflanking Washington Policy! This is both weird and ominous. - Juan Cole

Former UN secretary general accuses ‘powerful’ health interests in the US of blocking universal healthcare

The fact is that our country is failing on many of the things we hold most dear. And it’s getting worse. America is mired in a social progress recession.

Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class.

Vote Busters; The Kavanaugh Test; Farmers F**ked Again; Co-opting Pan-Africanism; Jordan Peterson Without Tears; Sisters Rebuild

Beyond 10 days, most meteorologists will say, there is little predictive skill. This is largely due to the "butterfly effect," in which only a very small change in initial conditions will have huge changes after about 10 days.

If you are not severely and wholeheartedly dealing with racism, you are not going to get to the bottom of this issue . . . CPD's own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color . . . at every step of the way, the police oversight system is riddled with legal and practical barriers to accountability.

In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.

Support for coup regimes, militarization and privatization, trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism.