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Kamala Harris' campaign has rolled out its most ambitious economic policy proposal to date: a highly progressive set of tax reforms that would raise nearly $5 trillion over a decade. Here's who would pay and what it might buy.

At the DNC last night, Kamala Harris promised big change. But the only way to ensure her full agenda can be passed is by killing the filibuster.

A sit-in outside the convention in protest and support from numerous elected officials did not succeed.

In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, an mRNA-based vaccine trains the patient's immune system to hunt down and kill cancerous cells and then prevents the cancer's return.

“They make billions of dollars off customers but essential workers – like me – who clean and maintain their offices have to work two jobs just to support their families" - contract worker at Con Ed

"…wherever you are is called here," writes poet Esther Kamkar in this era of refugees and immigrations, "and you must treat it as a powerful/ stranger."

Read what Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman hoped to tell Democrats. Romman has been a vocal and prominent activist for Uncommitted. Waleed Shahid, a strategist for the movement, said she was among a list of potential speakers given to the DNC.

Poet-activist Amanda Gorman recited an original poem on the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, a follow-up to the historic recitation of her original “The Hill We Climb” poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.

“All female political candidates are expected to narrate their motherhood status or, at least, their mother-like qualities,” writes @tressiemcphd . “But no other presidential candidate had to meet this challenge the way Harris will.”

What Israel could have achieved earlier with a hostage/cease-fire agreement has become impossible due to new conditions that Netanyahu introduced into the proposed deal. The paths chosen by Israel's leadership are leading down a slippery slope.