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Critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the U.S. can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the military.

New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win, but at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.

How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.

Dave Chappelle’s trans friend knew how to take a joke. So what?

Amazon Labor Union bids to create independent group – but workers say the company has openly opposed their effort

The Arizona weirdo has compelled the Democrats to abandon taxing the rich—so they’re proposing to tax rich folks’ unearned gains.

The annual number of denials have risen sharply. If people who are in fact disabled are too discouraged to apply or are being denied benefits, then the program is not performing the function for which it was designed.

The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.

Students at Michele Clark High were relieved to return to classes, but shootings on the West Side mean that their problems are far from over.

An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.