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A look at how Jim Crow affected the treatment of African Americans fighting the Spanish flu

The GOP’s decade-long war on voting rights is making it harder to hold fair elections as COVID-19 spreads

We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.

One in 10 Covid-19 deaths in the US have occurred in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The virus is rampant in New Orleans and growing in Georgia’s southwest. These outbreaks are unique because so many younger people are dying.

Human evolution was a complex process with many human species living and interbreeding at the same time. This emerging narrative, which challenges the old theory of human evolution as a linear march of progress, was bolstered by three new studies.

The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.

It is impossible for any contractor, project owner or union steward to monitor the protection of each worker to the fullest under these conditions.

Socialism is no longer marginal due to Bernie's campaigns. But his support has been insufficient to win. Key now will be to back the eventual Democratic nominee but still oppose neo-liberalism in its Republican and Democratic guise.

Thaddeus Stevens was born on this day in 1792. A fierce, uncompromising opponent of slavery, he was a true American revolutionary.

This extract from Nâzım Hikmet’s poetry speaks to the real crisis in these times of trouble.