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Preserving and expanding access to Medicaid—and improving women’s access to health care—is a matter of life or death.

Affirmative Action Had a Long Run, But Not Nearly Long Enough (1965), Working for Amazon Is Very, Very, Dangerous (2000), Witch-Hunt Targets Hazel Scott (1950), Bad Medicine at Johns Hopkins (2015)

But to understand why the Second Amendment exists at all, we must strip away the myths and confront a brutal truth: it was not written to safeguard freedom, but to preserve slavery.

America’s real-life Lorax says the climate apocalypse might be averted after all.

A recent report from UAW Region 6 outlines a bold vision for how to expand clean energy industries in California using union labor. It’s an example of how unions can get serious about industrial policy and assert themselves in the “abundance” debate.

After campaigning on ending censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump is making the list of things you're not allowed to say in America longer and longer. ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show signals that not even comedians are safe

There has been a clear deterioration in the labor market for Black workers this year. The decline in Black workers’ employment appears to be concentrated among Black women.

Despite a strong showing in the polls, Israel’s center-left camp is still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.

What are the fundamental physical constants and what determines their value?

Anticommunists deployed "semantic contrivances" to claim the US was a model democracy; meanwhile, the FBI focused its energies on activists and described their freedom aspirations as conspiratorial while the CIA, destroyed freedom movements abroad.