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Enslaved people’s health was ignored from the country’s beginning, laying the groundwork for today’s health disparities

The five and a half hour long hearing on Capitol Hill offered a stunning illustration of the extent of misdeeds by big tech

COVID-19's catastrophic rates of sickness and death, as well as tragic economic consequences, require the boldest remedies this country is capable of mustering. There will be no economic recovery until the virus is contained.

Morgan Freeman Reads Rep. John Lewis’ Last Words. Audion | Playing For Change. New Epstein Docs Name Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz. Coronavirus Ramps Up in the U.S. and Claims Herman Cain. The Man Who Knew Infinity.

Newspaper layoffs are going to get worse, it’s going to be hard, but I’m extremely motivated by our membership because they’re rising up in all these amazing ways to fight back against concessions and fight back against racist editorial decisions.

Long before the 2008 financial collapse rocketing, debt and financial wizardry masked the deep underlying fragility of finance-led growth, with wages and productivity stagnating, inequality exploding and ecological systems teetering.

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Local prosecutors shouldn’t trust the reports of officers with prior misconduct. Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public — especially Black communities...

Trump’s earlier hopes to win based on a strong economy and conquest of the coronavirus have faded. He needs another emotional issue that responds to people’s need for security: public order.

Protesters in Portland facing federal charges are barred from going to “public gatherings” as a condition of release from jail — a tactic one expert described as “sort of hilariously unconstitutional.”