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Andrea Cristina Mercado has spent over a decade working to resist the worst of Florida’s far right takeover. Here are lessons learned on how to survive authoritarianism and plant the seeds for long term resistance

Protesters in the Balkan nation aren’t worried just about the environmental impact of a luxury development connected to Kushner. They’re worried about democracy itself.

After waging a destructive war at vast expense, Donald Trump has ended up in a weaker strategic position than when he started. His main achievement has been to battle-test Iran’s ability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt the world economy

FIFA, the sport’s global governing body, said Haiti's jersey design violated its rules, which ban political slogans or imagery.

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Two indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic creativity à la the New Hollywood era are overblown.

Evil Thoughts in the Oval Office (1971), Senate Smears People’s Bicentennial (1976), Free At Last, Free At Last! (1865), Arthur Miller Schools House Un-American Activities Committee (1956), Musical Colossus (1956), Truth Helped End the Vietnam (1971)

Once confined to the margins, a movement seeking Jewish sovereignty over Al-Aqsa and an openly theocratic regime is going mainstream.

Spring has brought green shoots in the labor movement too. Here are some causes for hope.

“The American people deserve a foreign policy that serves American interests and American values,” said another critic, “not legislation that places the priorities of a foreign government above American sovereignty.”