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Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, criticized the members of the Scottish aristocracy who in 1707 signed the Act of Union thereby ending Scottish home rule.

There are two options: either Israel finally pulls into its defensible and normal borders, or the circles of condemnation will widen, culminating in the inclusion of all Israelis in the maligned group, indiscriminately.

The shunning of Mamdani is an important illustration of the state of the Democratic Party in 2025. It shows some unfortunate truths about the party’s center-left establishment and points to some clear steps progressives must take.

mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it. In reality, mRNA is by far the best vaccine option should a new viral outbreak strike because climate change is expanding mosquito habitat, or bird flu...

The frequency and intensity of wildfires in the West adds another variable to the equation, given the high concentration of uranium mines, mills and disposal sites on the Western Slope and in the Four Corners region. And: leakage from atom bomb tests

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“... organizing is the practice of identifying a future that you would like to have for yourself, for a community, for a global situation, and beginning the process of building an alliance with others towards that future.”

"Israel has lost the support of the world, including the American people," said policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs.

Many people with little or no criminal record have been swept into the administration’s immigration dragnet since January, an analysis of deportation data shows.

Experts are enthusiastic about poverty reductions achieved under former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador