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At the University of Iowa, faculty are forbidden from asking students to wear masks in classrooms or offices.

Governor Gavin Newsom will remain in office, but GOP attempts to undermine elections aren’t going anywhere.

Four Afghan women who sought refuge in America talk about their lives now and everything they gave up.

A Court that used to prize careful deliberation now seems to care more about making big change quickly.

Teamsters Local 362 filed for a vote on union representation at the Amazon YEG 1 Fulfillment Centre in Nisku, AB. This represents the first step in the Teamsters Canada union organizing campaign to bring Amazon to the bargaining table.

This newly published edition of this exchange of letters between the leaders of the three major countries of the anti-fascist alliance sheds new light on an almost forgotten aspect of the World War II years.

Labor unrest, European elections, signs of a people's war in Myanmar, and a left perspective on vaxxing

The passage of UNSC 2334 marks the first occasion since 1980 that the Security Council has censured Israel's settler-colonialist practices, primarily because the United States had consistently threatened to use or exercised its veto power against similar initiatives for the past thirty-six years. On this occasion, Washington once again refused to support the resolution-but on account of its abstention, the Security Council was able to unanimously adopt the draft text.

Ultraconservative politics are bullying the state government, but there is hope in the numbers being rallied to the cause. Donald Trump's triumph across the South and Midwest, which won him the Electoral College and the White House, did not extend to Governor Pat McCrory in my home state of North Carolina.

Without the Medicaid expansion, low-income people across the country would be left with no pathway to affordable health coverage. Repealing the Medicaid expansion would eliminate health coverage for up to, and quite possibly more than, 11 million low-income Americans in the 31 states (plus the District of Columbia) that have taken up this option.