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"This amendment is crucial as taxpayers and other citizens remain concerned—and inadequately informed—about the cost to U.S. taxpayers of the wide range of U.S. military activities abroad.

How to kick our national addiction to prisons

When we think about our latest war — the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption.

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.

What to make of the GOP debate, human rights for Juggalos, and more culture clash

An animated documentary film based on a true story, the film follows Aurora Mardiganian’s life during and just after the Armenian genocide.

Sixty years ago today, hundreds of thousands gathered at the Washington Mall, where they heard Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Since then, we’ve beaten a retreat from the march’s vision of racial and economic justice.

John Lewis' 1963 speech bluntly assailed deficiencies in the civil rights bill others were championing — but succeeded in doing so without undermining the day’s unity.

In this op-ed, an intern for the Pittsburgh Union Progress talks about her experience at a strike paper.