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Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?

America’s mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too—and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.

Sesame Street is going to introduce a new cast member next month. Her name is Julia and she’s a puppet with autism.

On March 26, 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started aerial attacks on Yemen, transforming a civil war into an international conflict and a humanitarian disaster. Even as the Trump Administration moves to increase the US role in the fighting, no end to the war is in sight. There are now some 40,000 human casualties, including more than 2,500 children and 1,900 women killed directly by the air strikes. And a child dies every ten minutes from disease or hunger.

'The momentum is building,' says one Democratic lawmaker

Single-payer health care has always been a goal of the Left. But Democrats have turned it into a punching bag.

Advance Auto Parts distribution workers in Lehigh County, Pa. will vote to unionize.

America's mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too--and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.

“Mostly what I see here is the same corporate wish list and a set of international rules that work quite well for global corporations,” said Celeste Drake, the AFL-CIO’s trade policy specialist.

Carolina poet Dan Albergotti ponders the death of democracy--and worse--asking: "Who chose this suicide?"