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Showrunner Eric Kripke is responsible for helping mold The Boys into the surprising feminist showcase it has become.

We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members.

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.

By attempting to reorient world trade away from China and to the United States, the U.S. is therefore attempting to lock other countries into subordination to its own very low growth instead of the much more rapidly growing economy of China.

Even if it is exceedingly difficult to prove a negative, there’s little reason to entertain a lab origin theory when no actual evidence is presented that the virus originated at any particular lab.

Editors at the world’s leading medical journal said the Trump administration “took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”

Tribal sovereignty and the well being of Native people hinge on the outcome of the 2020 elections. Yet, voter suppression, the fractured relationship with the major political parties and the US government continues to disenfranchise Native voters.

Voting rights groups are demanding local officials do more to protect voters from intimidation by right wing extremists enlisted by President Trump to suppress the vote. The most likely targets will be polls in communities of color in swing states.

Amid “white power” chants and maskless rallies, the President spreads hate (and likely COVID-19) during Minnesota fundraiser and campaign rally.