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No other advanced industrialized country links health care to employment like the U.S. does.

Biden used his leadership to get a Democratic-controlled Senate to give then-President Bush in 2002 the unprecedented authority to invade a country on the far side of the world that was no threat to the United States.

French director Agnès Varda, who died Friday at her home in Paris, was the only woman associated with the new wave during that film movement’s peak. She made films for more than 60 years, and in the latter part of her career focused on documentaries.

Net Neutrality; Phone spying; Digital divides; Local news is dying; Screens that kidnap; Tech platforms and terrorism

The Trump administration continues to attack workers and rollback worker rights.

“it’s the obligation of the international community...to stop supplying Israel with the weapons that it used to kill Razan and so many others like her. I call on organizations and states to implement our Palestinian call for a military embargo..."

...military and CIA drones that hover constantly over eight countries across the Greater Middle East and Africa, and regularly terrorize, maim, and kill civilians, including children, are equivalents of disturbed shooters in American schools.

Any serious social transformation will elicit a brutal response by the rulers. Again, the rulers will seek to derail the transformation.

Pro-Israel politicians don’t speak for young Jews like me. They shouldn’t pretend to.

Mathematical scientists have already come up with promising solutions, but we are concerned that the Supreme Court may not take their advice when it issues its decision in June.