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Ever since COVID-19 collided with the enormous bubble governments have been using to re-float the financial sector since 2008, booming equity markets became compatible with wholesale economic implosion. That became clear on August 12

Like the 1930s, nowhere are the political and economic failures of modern-day American capitalism greater than in the U.S. South, where a monolith of Republican governors and legislatures are completely incapable of dealing with the Covid 19 crisis.

Even as the energy of the last week is being steered in a safer direction and away from labor militancy, we still don’t know how this story is going to end.

Boseman was a superhero on screen, but his work defending the dignity of Black people’s image on screen was his best. In 2003, after he questioned a soap opera’s stereotypical depiction of a Black teen, he was fired.

The violent right’s influence in intelligence, police, conservatism - and how to fight it

Ecologists are estimating that nearly half a billion animals have been killed in Australia's unprecedented and catastrophic wildfires, which have sparked a continent-wide crisis forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in desperation.

We hope 2020 is when the American public finally looks at the fateful choice between war and peace with 20/20 vision, and we will start severely punishing Trump and every other U.S. politician who opts for threats over diplomacy, war over peace.

39 Republican senators and 168 representatives signed an amicus brief on Thursday asking the Supreme Court to revisit and potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, which protects the right for women's reproductive rights.

Yosef Elyah Glick, the hero of Monsey, his message to the political leaders was they must do their duty to condemn anti-Semitism and violence in all circumstances, and not use their positions to incite negative emotions among races and communities.

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