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Cash bail creates a two-tier justice system where freedom belongs to those who can afford it. For poor people, Illinois’s new bail reform bill is a step toward justice. For melodramatic conservatives drowning in propaganda, it’s right out of a horror film.

As rightwing campaigns for censorship sweep the US, opponents are finding ways to keep books on the shelves

The mundanity and insanity of gun death in America

New polling shows the appeal — and limits — of a Christian nationalist message.

When objectivity is impossible, and other media mishugas

The historical action epic, starring Viola Davis, tells the story of the Agojie, female African warriors who once reigned supreme

Mayor Eric Adams has suggested that New York’s response to Governor Greg Abbott’s busing of migrants into the city include rethinking its “right to shelter” law. But the solution to the homelessness crisis is in strengthening housing laws, not eroding them.

Black, Indigenous and Appalachian communities are fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline and other projects spurred as concessions to last month’s landmark climate legislation.

"There is no military solution short of economic ruin, global famine, climate catastrophe–or worse, nuclear Armageddon."

"We've got to get people in government who actually believe in government," said the Washington Democrat, "and who believe in democracy, believe in voting, believe in our Constitution."