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New polling shows the appeal — and limits — of a Christian nationalist message.

The mundanity and insanity of gun death in America

As rightwing campaigns for censorship sweep the US, opponents are finding ways to keep books on the shelves

Cash bail creates a two-tier justice system where freedom belongs to those who can afford it. For poor people, Illinois’s new bail reform bill is a step toward justice. For melodramatic conservatives drowning in propaganda, it’s right out of a horror film.

Maia Kobabe’s book, “Gender Queer,” was the most banned book in the U.S. in 2021, a year in which bans and challenges soared.

Workers at a Home Depot store in Northeast Philadelphia have filed paperwork to unionize — launching an unexpected campaign that, if successful, could mark the largest collective bargaining unit to date at any branch of the global home improvement retailer.

Africa and neocolonialism, division in Die Linke, focus on Myanmar's fight for democracy, and more

I am persuaded that the failure to defeat Trump in 2020 would open the door to a very different path for the United States – and for the world – that would subsequently be very difficult to reverse.

In a North Carolina lawsuit challenging the Republican gerrymandering of congressional district map, lawyers discovered links to the Trump Administration effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

Negotiating committees at each of the hospitals are nurses elected by nurses. They have the final say prior to ratification by the entire nurse membership. Approved by a 2/3 majority, the contract breaks new ground in establishing safe staffing.