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The president of the Chicago Teachers Union spoke to The Progressive about the union’s new contract that will protect Chicago educators and students from the threats of the Trump Administration.

Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

Amid a near-total asylum ban, government sources say Trump officials are planning to use funds for at-risk refugees to facilitate imminent Afrikaner resettlement.

California poet Anita Barrows writes: "When the genocide began I started writing daily notes. I felt the urgency to document these tragedies in a whole poem every day, and that is what I will do until the genocide ends. I intend to keep writing."

In Bangladesh, the factories that make clothing for export had remade themselves and raised national incomes along the way. They never bargained for a trade war.

How to contain Trump and defend democracy? What to stand for affirmatively as an opposition party? The outcome of these two debates will determine the direction and future of the Democratic party.

RFK Jr. plans to require more testing of vaccines before they approved, in the name of greater rigor. In fact, his proposals are highly unethical and pose a danger to your health. Here’s why

Senator Bernie Sanders says: History will not forgive our complicity. The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu’s destruction of the Palestinian people.