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Last December the US Navy deployed the new W76-2 low-yield Trident submarine warhead. Critics of the warhead say it accelerates a drift towards thinking of nuclear weapons as a means to fight and win wars, rather than as a deterrent of last resort.

Congresswoman from New York said Martin Luther King Jr. would disagree with establishment Democrats who believe "we can capitalism our way out of poverty."

Bernie's staff here says we knocked on 130,000 doors this weekend. I did about 250 of those doors, so do the math: 500 people like me. Possibly I’m just swept up in the moment, but it seems like a great social movement in the making.

Pharmacists across the U.S. warn that the push to do more with less has made medication errors more likely. “I am a danger to the public,” one wrote to a regulator.

Thousands of US workers have suffered job cuts and loss of hours – while Boeing’s former boss walks away with $62m

The southern California poet Gail Wronsky writes with pride (and pleasure and dignity) about her child who no longer passes as a binary daughter.

Staffers at the New York City Council began a card campaign in late November, a key step in the process that involves collecting signatures to show support for forming a union. They now have more than enough support to be formally recognized.

Scientists have grown the coronavirus in the lab for the first time. This is good news, and will advance the search for a vaccine. Meanwhile, what should you do to stay safe?

Karl Marx is often thought of as a purely economic thinker. But the famed socialist was a committed democrat — and his writings offer potential remedies for democratizing our undemocratic political system.

The indefatigably curious chemist and science-fiction icon championed rationality for the common good, explained science to the public and blazed new paths in science fiction in more than 500 books that he wrote or edited