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California poet John J. Brugaletta explains the silent magic of Houdini and why the public adores escape artists.

What We Know So Far About the Medicare for All Act of 2019

Trump’s Venezuela playbook is disturbingly familiar.

So, let’s start by my alerting you that my views on the Governor Northam controversy may be different from what you expect. I don’t think that he should resign.

Today, this strike is largely forgotten, or worse, when remembered, dismissed as a long lost cause, sometimes reduced to a “disaster” – that is, a near fatal setback for Seattle’s working people. It was neither.

A federal court this week approved a plan that will grant predatory vulture funds a huge payday while consigning the island's citizens to 40 years of high sales taxes.

100 years ago Henry Ford bought the Dearborn Independent to channel his virulent anti-Semitism. A local journal examined Ford’s bigotry and its sway in today’s white supremacist media, but Dearborn’s mayor censored the magazine and fired the editor.