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How Stephen Miller’s personal and political war on the 14th Amendment conflicts with the larger Reconstruction story and the vision of an egalitarian society for all who claim this nation.

Video from around the US on "No Kings Day 3" and a (sort of) related video on the power of Free Speech.

In Northern California, 2,400 mental health providers went on strike earlier this month against medical giant Kaiser Permanente. A major point of contention is Kaiser’s efforts to replace human-provided mental health care with artificial intelligence

To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income

In his new book, Joshua Leifer argues that the "demographic reality" of Israel has made neo-Bundist diasporism obsolete Doing so leads to an inability to adequately address the reality of Israel's crimes.

Wide partisan gap in expectations for how long the conflict will last.

Cubans have a right to self-governance. They have a right to medicine, to electricity, to water, to dignity. My father chose to leave Cuba in the face of poverty brought on by a cruel sanctions regime. I chose to return for the same reason.

The far right insists that only it knows how to govern because its ideology is the only legitimate way to look at the world. The TSA funding fight illustrates how lawmakers who ignore the real world to cleave to ideology strengthen authoritarianism.

We won’t stop US wars, effectively tackle climate change, stave off US-style fascism, or halt the march to a nakedly might-makes-right world order without a vision for a transformed role for the US in today’s interconnected world.

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