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Vietnamese and US descendants of those exposed to Agent Orange continue to face diseases and congenital anomalies. Just compensation for victims of Agent Orange is a moral imperative.

The scale of killing in Gaza is almost impossible to track as the Israeli military bombs and starves Palestinian civilians with impunity.

This refusal to learn is the shadow of the Vietnam War that hangs over us now as our nation appears to be losing its soul and the Trump regime demonstrates not only how to ignore history but how to erase it, as if it’s an easily edited website.

Florida is not the first state to loosen child labor protections, or even the most aggressive in that effort. Last year eight states, all led by Republicans, did so, according to a tracking by the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute.

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A judge has blocked a key part of the president’s attempt to rewrite election rules. “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections.”

In the U.S.—and across much of the world—fertility rates are falling, and populations are projected to shrink. People are having fewer children because the system makes it too hard, too risky, and too expensive.

The Supreme Court is poised to open the floodgates to mandatory taxpayer support for religious education across the country, striking down restrictions on religious charter schools. The right-wing justices seem unconcerned about the consequences.

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, JJ Johnson reflects on the journey that led him, along with two fellow Fort Hood soldiers, to refuse orders to Vietnam. He compares then to our situation today, "the darkest period in my lifetime."