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This book "offers a fresh history of the epidemic that gripped minority communities, inflamed media coverage and led to draconian drug laws."

Veteran union leader Claude Cummings Jr., 71, won a runoff late on July 10 for the presidency of the Communications Workers, becoming the influential and progressive union’s first-ever African American in its top job and its first-ever Southerner.

In addition to stepping up to mitigate climate change & green the world’s economy, the free nations must harden our democracies against reactive rightwing violence & hate-based political movements...

The nation’s schools are over-criminalized and under-resourced. U.S. schools have more police on hand than support staff.

A hopeful story about the survival of independent local newspapers

The real outrage isn’t that people can get vaccinated, but that due to pharmaceutical greed and government inaction, billions of people can’t.

The train wreck that is Twitter, and other fun stuff

The July 21, 2023 theatrical release of the film Oppenheimer, focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has played out for individuals and all of humanity.

Amazon is still refusing to recognize the union, much less begin negotiations. In the face of this stalemate, two approaches have emerged, and they are in conflict.

There are very good reasons the US government should forgive student loan debt — not just for the debtors themselves, but for working-class people without college degrees too.