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With the US dangerously divided, experts fear the president’s remarks will inspire armed factions to show up at polling places

On an individual basis, the most powerful action you can take to protect science is to vote out of office a president who is trying to gut it—and to encourage people you know to do likewise, especially in the battleground states.

An analyst of socialism's return writes as an advocate for its necessity, with particularly shrewd assessments of how the new American socialism can advance, and, alternatively, how it may marginalize itself into irrelevance.

In real life, "leaderlessness" simply allows the loudest voices, the most charismatic, the most manipulative, and the most threatening, to dominate and intimidate everyone else — with no accountability at all.

Labor unions ranging across several types of frontline workers today joined environmental groups in a lawsuit against the federal government.

Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown points to a caution: “if you hear/Of me dead anywhere near/A cop, then that cop killed me.”

The FBI said today that it foiled a plot by six men to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the state's government. Armed right-wing protesters stormed the Michigan Capitol earlier this year...

If Democrats want to win Wisconsin this fall—a big “if” still, according to Democrats on the ground—they will have to face down the ugly, and still largely unacknowledged, legacy of white supremacy in America’s Dairyland.

"Together, we're going to vote and organize like our communities and planet are at stake, because they are."

In the early 1960s, Rutha Mae Harris faced armed police as she sang at demonstrations across the US. The voice of the civil rights movement reflects on Martin Luther King, Donald Trump, racism and resilience.