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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.

What if the key to union growth isn’t simply more “smart organizing” but an entirely different strategic approach?

This week US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) charged corporate dark money is behind a plot, bearing all the marks of a covert operation, to control the Supreme Court and undermine the independence of the judicial branch of the federal government.

Martín Espada gives an eloquent elegy to Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, a Puerto Rican abolitionist and revolutionary who addressed issues of pandemic and racial oppression.

Two extensive union programs—one long established, one new—are focusing on swaying working-class voters who, like most Americans, don’t belong to unions.