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As the matter of gun control remains unresolved, the comments of poet Wendell Berry seem particularly relevant.

Time is short and the risks of failure are high, but Democrats have no choice except to proceed. The anonymous whistle-blower's complaint that the House Intelligence Committee released is a straightforward and clearly written document.

We believe that base building groups should assert themselves in the primary process and we believe firmly that the different decisions groups reach to endorse either Sanders or Warren should not produce irresolvable contradictions.

Many groups decried Trump’s remarks about Jewish disloyalty but ignored the abusive, anti-Palestinian policies underlying his comments. The clearly anti-Palestinian significance of his remarks were lost or side-lined in many of these discussions.

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“People who have dedicated their careers to public service are worried about retaliation. I have seen violations of disabled employees’ rights. I have seen violations of due process. I have seen my union locked out of my building for serving cake.

The book under review charts two worlds of the Jazz industry, paying attention both to the joy it brought to listeners alongside the depth of racism and economic exploitation behind the music.

Successive US administrations have sought to turn the borderlands into a land of death — but these photos prove it is very much a land of the living. In this photo essay, David Bacon reaches into his photographic archive of 30 years.

A group of Google contractors who hold college degrees, get paid as little as $40,000 a year, and don’t receive sick days voted to unionize on Tuesday.

This first novel by famed essayist Coates explores the world of slavery and abolition. The author "re-creates the world of the pre-Civil War South," says reviewer Fear, "with a journalist’s eye and ear for detail."