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Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

For many Democratic operatives, the victory of the Left in the Democratic Party, now represented by Sanders, the Squad, and Mamdani, would be a catastrophic blow, at least as obnoxious as MAGA and Project 2025. 

Along with the turnout of 50,000 volunteers who embraced the Mamdani campaign, the NY WFP, achieved the following: Knocked 7,750 doors; made 126K phone calls; organized 300 early voting poll site and over 200 election day poll site visibility shifts.

This 4th of July, may we all gather with Fannie Lou Hamer and the moral fusion family closest to us – both the living and the dead – to recommit ourselves to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders.

The radical Republican budget bill steals from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich

MMA was once used to curry favor with Putin. Now, Trump is using the UFC to project a nationalist cult of masculinity

Poet Susan Kelly Dewitt takes us inside the mind and heart of the lockhouse.

In addition to the grants already defunded, the Trump administration has proposed setting a 15-percent cap on indirect cost reimbursements, leaving a gap many public colleges and universities would be unable to cover, the advocates said.