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Scientists at Columbia University have developed a treatment that blocks the virus in the nose and lungs, is inexpensive and needs no refrigeration.

Voters were also in favor of taxing the rich and making it legal to smoke weed.

The parameters of American democracy correlate neatly with the parameters of the nation’s racial hypocrisy.

After decades of voter suppression, organizing efforts pay off.

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In the midst of a pandemic, drivers will be denied sick days, and local laws passed in L.A., San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose to protect drivers during COVID-19 will be retroactively undone.

The Enlightenment and other liberation ideologies had put slavery under fire. “This was the international context of insurgent liberalism that the Confederacy sought to reverse with its bid for a reactionary slaveholders’ republic..

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