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Termination letters were sent to those students protesting for a cost-of-living adjustment amid California’s housing crisis

The agreement, warned Rep. Barbara Lee, "leaves thousands of troops in Afghanistan and lacks the critical investments in peacebuilding, human-centered development, or governance reform needed to rebuild Afghan society."

“This poem is an elegy for a dear friend and mentor, Luis Garden Acosta,” writes Martin Espada, whose “activism…changed his community in Brooklyn [and] the lives of untold thousands like me.”

Engineers and others at the crowdfunding platform voted narrowly to form a union, one of the first tech companies to do so. “The tech sector represents a new frontier for union organizing,” Richard Lanigan, the union’s president, said in a statement.

The Trump team confirms all of our worst fears

The case for reparations and The 1619 Project have focused attention on what makes African Americans distinct

The hours of Fox coverage Trump watches each day shape his worldview -- and direct his often inchoate rage

We need to hear about the risks directly from the experts, not through the filter of politicians