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There are situations in which there is no common ground worth standing on, let alone hiking over to.

Schools are making the hybrid learning plan work as best they can, but our teachers are likely not okay. They are getting the work done—but their physical, emotional, and mental health may be suffering in the process.

By giving the immune system a preview of the most critical part of the virus without causing disease, the vaccine gives the immune system time to design powerful antibodies that can neutralize the real virus.

So much vital work to be done—that must be done—for a more a peaceful world.

During the day, immigrant teenagers attend high school. At night, they work in factories to pay debts to smugglers and send money to family. The authorities aren’t surprised by child labor. They’re also not doing much about it.

Chicago poet Donna Pucciani speaks to the cruel conditions facing young refugees, the idea they are not even people.

Joe Biden has won states worth 306 Electoral College votes, 36 more than the 270 needed to win, and received in excess of 5 million more popular votes than Donald Trump. Yet Trump insists the election was stolen from him and he is the victor.

A successful Biden presidency will require immediately making people's lives better - and this is where to start.

South African freedom fighters here respond to the purge of Jeremy Corbyn from membership in Britain's Labour Party last week, over charges that he is anti-Semitic. The purge was reversed this week by the party's National Executive Committee.

Nigeria is the most populous country on the African continent, with just over two hundred million inhabitants. The Oct. 3 killing of a young man by the brutal SARS police unit has sparked a nationwide uprising.