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The expiration of stimulus benefits has thrown millions into poverty, even as the unemployment crisis continues to hammer workers. There’s a deep sickness at the heart of the American economy.

Has the Real "Thief" Finally Been Unmasked?

As the growing number of Black and Latinx voters threaten the GOP’s stranglehold on power, attempts to limit safe voting options during the pandemic reveal a deeper sickness in Texas politics.

Workers ages 16–24 face high unemployment and an uncertain future

Labour’s historic win delivered Ardern a second term while voters punished politicians who embraced populism

In a small study in San Francisco, Abbott’s BinaxNOW identified infectious people nearly as accurately as a P.C.R. test.

It is very important to relay to the younger generation the recent past and history of the country’, Martin insists. During the 2015 International People’s Tribunal on the 1965 events, Martin testified about the crimes against humanity that he saw.

Republicans have been laying the groundwork to restrain a Biden administration on federal spending by focusing on the price tag for virus relief. It makes it all the more critical that Democrats retake the Senate and eliminate the filibuster.

Instead of exploiting the Armenian and Azerbaijan conflict, the U.S. should work with the OSCE Minsk Group to support a ceasefire and a stable negotiated peace that respects the human rights and self-determination of all the people of the region.

We wait, helplessly, to see whether the forces opposed to Trumpism inside the United States will succeed.