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Good thing nobody's predicting a huge surge in mail any time soon.

A completely politicized and manufactured crisis threatens to destroy the US Postal Service, our most important, successful and trusted institution by any measure. While the Trump Administration seeks to destroy it we must embrace and empower it.

President Trump has undermined a US arms control regime developed over seven decades by successive US administrations. He is seeking to reverse important steps towards disarmament and arms control taken by every US president from Eisenhower to Obama.

RootsAction.org is asking swing state progressives to bite the bullet and support the Democratic nominee whose record they've described as abysmal. Their message: “vote Trump out —and then challenge Biden” after November.

US media has a history of supporting right-wing coups and not much seems to be changing. That media narratives remain unchanged even after acknowledgment of new evidence indicates it is official dogma, not reality, that sets the tone for coverage.

At stake in Lordstown, Ohio, are the livelihoods of more than 1,400 plant workers and thousands more indirect jobs in the surrounding area of northeast Ohio, a key swing state in presidential elections.

On a bus in the West Bank, fearing for our lives, this 13-year-old boy taught me the true power of empathy

City residents, said the judge, "could have taken protective measures, if only they had known what the Governor knew. Instead, the Governor misled them into assuming that nothing was wrong."

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.