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New proposal quietly published last week would amount to ‘devastating blow’ for science, experts warn. This would allow the administration to block grants if they do not satisfy President Trump’s agenda or support what it calls “anti-American” values

We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. An AI tax should target the companies that stand to make billions of dollars by laying people off.

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World’s seafarers’ and dockers’ unions demand immediate end to seafarer humanitarian crisis - call for governments to confront the Flag of Convenience system that enables exploitation and fails to protect seafarers.

It is not clear that Democrats have any sense of what they want the American Republic to be, versus a sense of the kinds of policies they hope to institute.

In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Black citizens have no voice in federal lawmaking.

Socialist Maurice Brown has served as a county legislator in the Syracuse area since 2024. Now he is running to replace one of the New York State Assembly’s longest-serving members, who Brown describes as an obstacle to progressive change.

Veteran journalist says executives pushed unverified claims and gave politicians a say in interviews

That is, everyone except Donald Trump.

In a resounding victory for reproductive rights and Worker Power, more than 400 Front-Line Health Care Workers have secured their Union as Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Workers United (PPMMWU).