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In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members.

Showrunner Eric Kripke is responsible for helping mold The Boys into the surprising feminist showcase it has become.

In 2020, COVID and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police revealed the extent to which people of color and the entire working class is confronting the economic injustice and racism of a political system stacked in favor of elites.

In 2016, Donald Trump said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." He is indeed a murderer, but as president, he's proven to be anything but a smalltime killer.

Amid “white power” chants and maskless rallies, the President spreads hate (and likely COVID-19) during Minnesota fundraiser and campaign rally.

Voting rights groups are demanding local officials do more to protect voters from intimidation by right wing extremists enlisted by President Trump to suppress the vote. The most likely targets will be polls in communities of color in swing states.

Tribal sovereignty and the well being of Native people hinge on the outcome of the 2020 elections. Yet, voter suppression, the fractured relationship with the major political parties and the US government continues to disenfranchise Native voters.

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