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Ohio will be voting on a measure that makes it harder to amend the constitution in a high-stakes election – and the Republican proposal is ‘minority rule’, experts say.

Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety.

These two efforts build on the success of the federal Child Tax Credit in reducing child poverty and improving outcomes for children in the near and long term and are important tools for advancing equity.

Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky.

On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic and military development because it is our chief competitor and thus enemy. On the other hand, it seeks to secure the benefits of U.S. companies’ trade with and investments in China.

“I understand Trump fatigue, but it feels like the president and his advisors preparing to use the military to quash protests against his planned coup should be bigger news."

They say, “Hey, we’re going to have the best sports coverage in the world.” After you fire or reassign all your sports reporters? That’s how you make the step to have the best sports coverage in the world?

In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.

The people of Niger, facing a desperate situation, are threatened with the withdrawal of vital humanitarian aid from the country in response to the coup, a move tantamount to a punitive measure and essentially exploiting aid as leverage.

On July 27, the hotel workers union in LA, UNITE HERE Local 11, in a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times, asked Swift to cancel her six sold-out concerts at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, in solidarity with the 15,000 hotel workers who have been on s