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Clarence Thomas has an expansive view of free speech for campaign donors. For most everyone else, not so much.

From Venezuela to Iran, Washington's illegal and inhumane economic sanctions are putting millions of lives at risk.

Viruses have been a part of our lives for so long, in fact, that we are actually part virus: the human genome contains more DNA from viruses than our own genes.

Scientist Sacoby Wilson has long focused on health and environmental injustice. Here he discusses how social and environmental inequality has contributed to the outsized impact of COVID-19 on low-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

In a move that will surely worsen Somalia’s slow-boiling coronavirus crisis, the Trump Administration has quietly ramped up a bombing and covert raiding campaign, a major escalation of a war Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports.

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to “an explosion in the use of solitary confinement in prisons, jails, and detention centers.” Punitive isolation under the pretext of public health is worsening the crisis of mass incarceration.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe

“Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”, part 1

Lessons from the last stand of steelworkers in Homestead

Arizona-based poet Lollie Butler’s poetry captures the horrors of refugees crossing the Sonora desert.