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A Koch-owned company is exploiting bankruptcy law to avoid responsibility for their asbestos assets and rewrite judicial precedent.

External and internal threats to the nation – real or perceived – always played a crucial role in the enabling of dictators and the establishment of authoritarian regimes.

For California poet Joe Zaccardi our holiday of memory brings back wartime scenes of flying and hope of rescue.

The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged.

My grandfather remembers neighborly relations with Jews before 1948. For Palestinians today, such a prospect seems nearly impossible.

Trump is not angry because the Manhattan trial that convicted him was rigged; he is angry because it wasn’t.

Democratic operatives sometimes say there’s no sense in talking about Trump’s trials, because his “negatives” are “baked in.” Nonsense. A guilty verdict is powerful new information. The force of this truth should inform how Democrats proceed.