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“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.”

I believe that my experience, especially as a female, is both timely and relevant as an account of the struggles against the ruling class. I still believe that imperialism and capitalism are the scourges of democracy.

Seed the Vote brings together progressive anti-fascist, anti-Trump forces in several ways. Seed the Vote provides the scheduling, training, and infrastructure. "Plant the seed for the kind of democracy we want to be building together.”

The military says that the “health” of the defense industry is crucial to national security. But the CARES Act money was specifically allocated to protect the health of the people of this country — not the companies that build weapons.

With factory-farmed cattle responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions, we wondered if grass-fed beef is a more climate-friendly option. The answer? It's complicated.

U.S. farmers say a crisis of farm profitability and increase in food scarcity may be looming, short of major changes in the industrial agriculture system.

Showrunner Eric Kripke is responsible for helping mold The Boys into the surprising feminist showcase it has become.

We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members.

This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.

In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.