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Six ways that Biden can make the world safer in 2021.

Let “natural herd immunity” as a pandemic relief strategy be extinguished with the end of 2020.

During the hearing, the High Court justices saw no problem with demoting the status of Arabic and claimed that 'equality' is something best left for the future.

The acceptance of Trump’s behavior by millions of his supporters will be his vilest legacy.

The Persian American poet Majid Naficy warns of celebrating a change of regimes too soon.

From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.

The Trump administration’s first moves on immigration enforcement represent an unprecedented hard-line position, envisioning thousands of new agents, enlisting local police as immigration enforcers, making virtually anyone a priority for deportation, bypassing immigration courts, and, of course, ordering the construction of the infamous wall along the Mexican border. And then there is the president’s own rhetoric equating immigrants with criminals.

What follows is written in concert with the project initiated by the National Council of Elders on April 4, 2017: Time to Break Silence. Groups around the country will stage public readings of Martin Luther King’s Beyond Vietnam speech on its 50th anniversary. In confronting the deeply rooted racism, militarism and materialism of the United States, Dr. King described the United States as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.