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Promoters of oil and gas industry extraction in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge have adopted a new tack, terming all opposition to Artic drilling a “racist” attempt to deny Alaska’s Native communities an essential source of jobs and revenue.

People in Pakistan desperately hope and long for a return to normality, but as the writer Arundhati Roy already noted: nothing could be worse than a return to the normality because that normality was unjust to its core.

Despite serious public-health concerns, many college campuses are slated to reopen for in-person instruction this fall. Students will get infected, and universities will rebuke them for it; campuses will close, and students will be blamed for it.

Republicans’ answer to the prospect of socialized medicine is, for a growing number of Americans, no healthcare at all. And the attacks on women’s reproductive care continue.

State eviction moratorium may only delay the reckoning for tenants  .

In St. Louis, the demand to defund the police has dovetailed with long-lasting struggles against cash bail and the abuse of prisoners.

Poet Lee Rossi recalls his introduction to right-wing politics, Goldwater’s call for a war against America, much of it still echoing today.

Over a dozen workers at Whole Foods stores in four states claim in a class-action lawsuit that the company retaliated against them for wearing the movement’s apparel.

“The Volga must be our Mississippi,” Hitler declared in his pursuit of Lebensraum and liquidation.

The purpose of the encampments is to house people, but to also create a space where “they are treated with dignity, like they have the right to exist.”