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I would vote for Joe Biden even if I believed Reade's account. Fortunately, I don't have to sacrifice morality to political necessity. Four more years of Trump will replace what remains of our democracy with unchecked rule by fascists and fanatics..

The New York governor is replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists, and lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing. Too many decision-makers are ceding their policy to corporate power and private sector privileg

In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.

Parties and movement groups, Cuba and Vietnam, and African scholar activists face the Corona crisis

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his considerable skills to bear in this novel about a pandemic, written before our current crisis erupted.

Just as in the Great Recession, a steep downturn in the private sector is poised to cause big job losses in state and local governments.

Congress boosted unemployment benefits. Now the challenge lies in getting them out to the unemployed, through underfunded state-level programs.

"We will use every tool in our arsenal to block efforts aimed at discouraging participation by eligible voters this election season."

The 1959 revolution launched a project of social justice and equity, an event that would change policies regarding gender and sexualities, among profound, radical transformations in the nation and its culture

Workers who encounter something that is an immediate threat to health and safety have few good choices for action.