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For thousands of Palestinian parents, the joy of giving birth rapidly turned to grief when their newborn babies were killed by Israel's bombardment.

Sadly, the same cannot be said with confidence for the Electoral College battleground states. Harris needs the kind of high turnout from contingent new voters that pushed Biden over the top (barely) in those states.

“He was not a real cop,” said a retired NYC Transit Police officer who was as real as they come.

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I understand the collective failure of the UMD GLU card campaign as a failure of vision, of the breadth of social life needed to sustain our union, and of the strategic flexibility required to navigate our difficult organizing landscape.

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A hundred years ago, radical Finnish immigrants founded a cooperatively-owned park to escape political repression on Minnesota’s Iron Range. It’s still “a workingman’s paradise.”

The presidential election is now two months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is over-rated? This was Elon Musk's role in England. Now Trump is proposing him as our new Efficiency Czar.

Ta-Nehisi Coates's writing on race fueled a reckoning in America. Now he wants to change the way we think about Israel and Palestine. "I realized how similar what I was seeing was to the world my parents and grandparents were born into.”

Leaked documents show that the secretary of state received two explosive reports on Israel blocking aid to Gaza—right before he told Congress the exact opposite. Two U.S. government agencies advocated a pause in arms sales to Israel, in May.