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As measles outbreaks continue across the country, Democrats in the New York state legislature have created a solution to the ever-increasing problem of uninformed parents creating unvaccinated children: Let the kids choose.

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, has inspired kids in more than 98 countries to skip school.

“It is brutal,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the executive director of UN Women, said of the current environment for women.

In this interview, author Jonathan M. Metzl, a physician and social scientist, talks about traveling through Trump country to find that the politics of "white racial resentment" is poisoning and sickening GOP voters as well as our politics.

Sebastián Lelio’s update of his 2013 film, Gloria, doesn’t change much from the original, but Julianne Moore’s pitch-perfect work is reason enough to watch.

Methodist melee; Smearing Omar; Jewish jihad; Hating AOC; Abrams on idpol; Poverty and politics; Chait meets Sunkara

Across Europe, far-right parties and movements have been gathering steam over the past years — anti-fascists have been organizing in response.

That puts 57 percent of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget into the Pentagon and nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, total funding for all other agencies, is only $543 billion - a nine percent decrease.

“I won’t say that Tennessee is next, but I also won’t say that we’re not,” said Rucker, a former classroom teacher who is president of United Education Association of Shelby County, one of two organizations that represents Memphis teachers.

The former vice president is eager to stake out the middle of the road, between ultra-predatory capitalism and solidarity with working-class people