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Giving each president two Supreme Court seats to fill would be a positive, transformative change.

At present, the U.S.—along with other wealthy nations where major pharmaceutical companies are based—is blocking India and South Africa's push for a patent waiver, which industry lobbying groups are mobilizing to crush.

Fifty years ago, on March 8, 1971, a group of eight activists staged one of the most stunning acts of defiance of the Vietnam War era when they broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they found.

Massive popular pressure—like that organized by the 1980s nuclear freeze movement—is needed to stop more waste, fraud and abuse.

For the next generation, it’s already clear that clean and sustainable energy will be crucial to achieving a more equal, economically prosperous, and less climate-challenged future.

Experts say U.S. officials are seeking enemies, not the truth.

An interview with jazz master Archie Shepp discussing his views on politics and music.

I had seen too much: I was a witness, not only to torture but to the fact that an American was the boss of a Guatemalan torture squad.

How did Irish society move from a ban on abortion to a victory for women's rights? What can be learned from this experience for the current feminist protests in Poland?

Would Undo Decades of Southern Anti-Union Laws Rooted in Racism