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Impeachment should be about how an oligarch debauched democracy, not about a president clashing with the national security establishment.

More than a dozen half-baked bills in a number of states would weaken the teaching of evolution and other “controversial” topics

This dystopian vision of a new era of climate-driven global conflict and ideological regression has shifted into the foreground of global politics. But, there is still time to drown out the fossil fuel industry’s chorus of denial and change course.

"The underlying problem is in the model of production and consumerism, in the ownership of natural resources and in the unequal distribution of wealth." Today, 26 people in the world have the same wealth as 3.8 billion people.

Women across Palestine and the diaspora marched on September 26 to assert that the struggle of women is intrinsic to the broader struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—the Saudi Arabian citizen detained in the wake of September 11, still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.

Because federal labor law doesn’t guarantee protections for bereft workers, those workers’ wellbeing often suffers.

As the matter of gun control remains unresolved, the comments of poet Wendell Berry seem particularly relevant.

Supporting labor battles is at the center of the Bernie Sander's campaign. At a Chicago teachers rally he stated, “the only way to win prosperity for working people is when we significantly increase membership in trade unions all across America.” 

For Warren, a wealth tax is primarily a path to revenue, while Sanders emphasizes reducing the economic power of billionaires as a class