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John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.

Taking over the culture and media industry by the government goes hand in hand with efforts to limit the power of the courts. One cannot maintain a democracy for its citizens along with military dictatorship for its noncitizens, without consequences.

Some Democrats apparently thought voting for the GOP’s ludicrous anti-socialism resolution would keep them safe from Republican attacks. They’ll find out soon enough how wrong they were.

Since the 1980s, the nation had gone from close to 50 Class 1 railroads down to seven with monopoly power akin to 19th-century robber barons. Through their “precision scheduling railroading,” these monopolists are putting worker safety and the community well-being at risk.

Donald Trump was and is a lazy, ignorant narcissist. The Florida governor is a smart, motivated, very right-wing Catholic who wants to remake America as he imagines God wants it to be. Is this what the MAGA controlled GOP has come to?

An in-depth analysis of the Peru uprising, and updates from Europe, Myanmar and more

Harvard Academic Workers-United Automobile Workers stated that it seeks to unionize the over 6,000 University’s non-tenure-track faculty.

The president repudiates the neoliberal ideologies of the past and puts the party on solid economic and political ground.

It's historic because team owners and managers historically discriminated against Black players— especially in so-called "thinking positions" like center, middle linebacker and quarterback.