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A proposed new rule would place all research and other federal grants under the control of political appointees. “It would dismantle the US science ecosystem – but also all federal discretionary grants.”

These troops helped transform a conflict fought initially to preserve the Union into one that destroyed slavery as well.

“I think this is intended to make workers shy away from being vociferous in their opposition to state sponsored violence.”

On the hundredth birthday of Allen Ginsberg, poet William Berkowitz reminds us that before there was the poet who wrote HOWL, there was his father, Louis Ginsberg, the poet who wrote the poet who wrote HOWL.

The Democratic establishment has made some huge mistakes—but progressives are running savvier campaigns than they used to. The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is alive again, with progressives winning key primaries around the country

Society has treated parenting as a private endeavor. But what if raising children is also a public good? The sheer logistical and financial madness of raising children in America is now officially a matter of political concern.

A new history of the 113-year-old advocacy group highlights its lifelong history of Zionist antagonism toward the left. Early on there was an antagonism by German Jewish leaders already here to the mass of Jewish immigrants newly arriving

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A portrait of life in the Iranian capital through the months leading up to the war, and in the first weeks under the Israeli and U.S. "Operation Epic Fury".

Spanberger was recruited to run first for Congress, then for Governor, by the same anti-union Democratic Party machinery that has helped keep the trade union density in Virginia at less than 5%. Yes, not a typo. Less than 5%.