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Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan aims his words at those who profit from war and its weapons.

The Hollywood actor criticized the concentration of power in the hands of the Ellison family, while also mentioning the family's ties to Israel. Antisemitism is a real threat in America today, but this isn't an example of it.

For decades, Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. Parton gave a voice to those who are all too often forgotten. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.

The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.

In a blistering dissent, Jackson warned that the Court’s emergency ruling lets the Trump administration continue pursuing changes to state-run mail voting systems even though “no judge or Justice” has concluded that Trump’s order is constitutional.

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“We know when working people stand up together, we win.”

Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump and Winning Her Washington Post Job Back