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Seasoned election lawyers said Florida attorney general is wrong on the law and doing the governor’s bidding to suppress likely Democratic votes.

The state can follow the example of Abraham Lincoln and finally establish a progressive state income tax.

The special chemistry of il manifesto -- its founders united but different is mainly due to Rossana Rossanda, who passed away on Sept. 20 at age 96. Her point of view placed Italian events within the broad perspective of a world in motion.

There is only one option for the left before the big showdown: Close ranks with the centrists and work harder than them to oust Trump, and hopefully flip the Senate. Numbers and unity needs to be the focus of our strategy, short and long-term.

Kristin Urquiza’s father, Mark, died of COVID last June. Last month Urquiza wrote, “He was terrified of dying but he also felt betrayed” by President Trump and Arizona governor Doug Ducey. Now Urquiza fears Trump personally exposed her to the virus.

Michael Mann, one of the world’s preeminent climate experts, says averting a global climate catastrophe would be “essentially impossible” if Donald Trump is re-elected. There is no more important way for US citizens to exercise agency than to vote.

Overall, 661,000 jobs were added in the U.S. labor force between August and September — but women still left it at alarming numbers.

State interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South

California poet Mary Bailey captures the voice of a Syrian girl from Aleppo who, with assistance from her English-speaking mother, sent messages through Twitter documenting the siege of the city.

A report from the CDC about safety procedures at a meatpacking plant whose workers were falling ill at an alarming rate early on in the pandemic is raising new questions about political interference at the agency.