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In February 1939, the German-American Bund held an infamous, Hitler-supporting rally in Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Trump will be holding a rally at Madison Square Garden. The parallel is unmistakable.

However one might reject their premises, some fraction of the American men who have succumbed to the lure of Trump’s fascism need to feel seen and heard and recognized. Saving the country from tyranny needs to become aspirational for men.

Tennis star Billie Jean King challenged America to create more opportunities for women and LGBTQ people. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized school, amateur, and professional athletics.

Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.

Unions need to plan a response now.

Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

Three months after Hitler promised to uphold the German Constitution, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service,

The US singer-songwriter, who has died at 97, encountered Louis Armstrong and more as she championed civil rights as much as music. In her final interview conducted last week, she explained why she was still angry.