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Organizers Monday drew attention to the fact that Starbucks Chief Executive Brian Niccol was reportedly compensated $95.8 million in 2024, roughly 6,666 times the median worker’s salary.

The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.

Leaks show how a foreign influence network governs the world's most powerful nation through seduction, dependence and capture

Organizers Monday drew attention to the fact that Starbucks Chief Executive Brian Niccol was reportedly compensated $95.8 million in 2024, roughly 6,666 times the median worker’s salary.

As the Second Red Scare shows, when free speech is under attack, strategic compliance may be useful for individuals. However, bold and courageous acts of dissent are critical for protecting First Amendment rights for everyone.

The far right disputes memory in order to open up the possibility of authoritarian government on the horizon of expectations. Our horizon is built from a different place: the idea that fascism will never return, ever again.

To counter science denial, lead with empathy, communication experts advise.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.

Some of Russia’s maximalist demands have been removed from original 28-point proposal drawn up last month by Vladimir Putin’s special envoy and Trump’s representative Steve Witkoff. European leaders warn that no deal can be reached quickly.

Talk Nice or Shut Up! (1970), ‘You Can Protest, But We Don’t Care’ (1965), State Department’s Embarrassing Secrets (2010), One of Robert Moses’s Many Bad Ideas (1955), Throwing Jim Crow Off the Bus (1955), Wrist Slaps for Killer Cops (1975)