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In a move that will surely worsen Somalia’s slow-boiling coronavirus crisis, the Trump Administration has quietly ramped up a bombing and covert raiding campaign, a major escalation of a war Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports.

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to “an explosion in the use of solitary confinement in prisons, jails, and detention centers.” Punitive isolation under the pretext of public health is worsening the crisis of mass incarceration.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe

“Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”, part 1

Lessons from the last stand of steelworkers in Homestead

Arizona-based poet Lollie Butler’s poetry captures the horrors of refugees crossing the Sonora desert.

Nobody belonged to the salt marshes of coastal Georgia more than Ahmaud Arbery. His family’s roots there run more than 200 years deep. A native of those same marshes writes about who Ahmaud was and and what his community must reckon with.

Delving into how Trump and the GOP can hijack the process, they find an untested law, procedural unknowns and few clear constitutional brakes

After striking, the workers were fired en-masse earlier this week. Now, the city has found new workers to replace the striking workers - prison labor from nearby Livingston Parish. 

Studies of social networks show that opposition to vaccines is small but far-reaching — and growing