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The right-wing has effectively taken over much of the media, from TV stations to radio and podcasts. Fortunately, labor organizers and analysts are creating high quality informative podcasts and news shows.

Over the past four decades, however, government health policies have reduced health services to commodities and objects of speculative investment.

Thigpenn says the path forward means reversing public spending priorities that direct resources away from low-income communities — priorities that create tax structure that makes low-income communities in California scramble to fund schools.

Here are the highlights of a preliminary analysis of the only national exit poll for the 2020 Elections, available on all major news and political websites.

While I find comfort in Malcolm X’s observation to better have a processed head than a processed mind, this election reminds us of the often stated point that African Americans are not a monolith any more than other ethnic or racial groups...

I am deeply disappointed to know that many, too many white women, approximately 57% of our total, need their whiteness so much that they dismiss everything non-white as less. The white women who voted for Trump in 2020 made a clear choice.

Anne Willan weaves culinary history, writing and teaching into her fascinating new book, Women in the Kitchen.

The economy remains in a deep hole, with unemployment and underemployment far above pre-pandemic levels.

There was significant progress, but not across the board.

Technology exists for members of Congress to securely vote remotely during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.