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This democracy fight is coming to a head now, which means things are getting ugly. Manchin doesn’t want to move forward without GOP support, but he also doesn’t want to be squeezed, so he wrote his op-ed trying to head off a showdown...

Castillo, the son of illiterate peasants, overcame vicious media attacks and is on the verge of defeating Keiko Fujimori, the scion of a Peruvian political dynasty.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

A progressive tax system is one of the few tools we can deploy to slow and reverse the growth of billionaire power.

Cutting back aid for jobless workers now, while suitable jobs are still not available for many of them, is not just cruel but undermines the objective of the assistance to speed up the economic recovery.

When it comes to trade in the tools of death and destruction, no one tops the United States of America. Changes in arms export policy will mean forcefully taking on the arms lobby.

The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible.

Latinx and low-income communities are suffering from the effects of plastics manufacturing.

“Hope…is not the same as joy that things are going well…or…headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good...”

Critical race theory is not primarily about history. It is about the effects of history on institutions, policies, laws, and, most importantly, ideas. And that makes the rightwing deeply uneasy.