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Hard looks at SCOTUS and democracy in crisis

“Prayers for the Stolen” shines a much-needed light on the consequences of Mexico’s war on drugs, specifically highlighting the plight of the nation’s women and girls. The film is a contender for an Oscar for best International Film.

After striking for 10 weeks, student workers at Columbia University have a tentative agreement that members will vote on, but they also have a stronger, more democratic union.

A hundred years ago a low-key event in Dublin Castle marked the handover of British rule to the new Irish Provisional Government . This Is an account of that day.

The fact that Black Americans are still fighting the same battles against voter suppression, inequality and the right to have a dream almost 54 years after his death is the most accurate measure of what this nation thinks about Martin Luther King.

From Mongolian barbecue to Russian dressing, you can’t tell a food’s origin by its name.

“Any analysis of race that artificially divorces it from class & racial capitalism leads us once again down a dead-end path of a little bit more for some but nothing for most of us.” - Barbara Ransby

The Vice President has constitutional rights, too. By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote.

King spent his last birthday organizing poor people of all races against immoral spending priorities. We need that revolution today.

The stunning Covid vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna drew upon long-buried discoveries made in the hopes of ending past epidemics.