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Reaching higher ground vs “getting back” to a normal that never was

“Freaky” offers liberating and honest portraits of young women and queer people, free from tokenism and broad generalizations to which the genre can often resort.

A new­ly elect­ed pro­gres­sive DA in Austin, Texas is bring­ing some­thing to his posi­tion that none of his coun­ter­parts have before: deep ties to the labor movement. Jose Garza, the new District Attorney in Austin, is the face of progressive pow

But there’s a tremendous amount of consensus among Asian Americans when you look at issues like government-sponsored health care, environmental protections, gun control and taxing the rich. About half said that they were worried about hate crimes...

This new voting bloc is made up of several different demographic groups, including young people, ex-felons, and newly naturalized citizens.

The crowning achievement of this multiracial and cross-class health activism was codification of the right to health in the 1940 Constitution. “Good health care...revolutionary medicine is far more cost effective than corporate-controlled medicine."

People tune out when we go on and on; and if we let a little contempt seep into our erudition, the door slams shut. Maybe it’s time to start talking like a neighbor rather than an advocate.

Sophia Roe, a Brooklyn-based chef and food advocate, wants to mobilize food conscious consumers and celebrate those responsible for feeding people. “Food is the single most important thing that we can put in our bodies outside of water,” she says.

A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.

From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysmic Wars