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Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong with relying on their benevolence.

The Supreme Court's decisions are insanely unpopular; we have to make that matter.

What did Congress intend with Clean Air Act?

As a movement born in Uganda and Tanzania arrives in the United States, activists are drawing strength from lessons of earlier pipeline battles.

I feel trapped in violence that extends from Palestine to here and I don’t know how to get free from it. I’m trying my best, but even when I call out what is obvious, when we call out the oppression, we are silenced and so I always feel alienated.

When WikiLeaks first released its hoard of documents, extracts were published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El País. None of these has campaigned for Assange’s freedom, though if he did anything wrong, so did they.

The word “companion” doesn’t sound oppressive at all: It appears quite the opposite. A companion is supportive, nurturing, loyal. But that word was used for decades to deny basic labor protections to workers who provide in-home assistance to people with disabilities.

In Staten Island, one union local is propelling a growing labor-community alliance deep in New York’s Republican recesses.

Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again.

Russia isn't as strong as we think, but they do have nukes – which is why beating the war drum is a mistake