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“As our country undergoes a racial reckoning, I want to be very clear: the Hyde Amendment is a racist policy.” Black and Native American women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes.

I am deeply disappointed to know that many, too many white women, approximately 57% of our total, need their whiteness so much that they dismiss everything non-white as less. The white women who voted for Trump in 2020 made a clear choice.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for Covid 19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes.

Should activists sit this election out? Not if you believe in activism. The right tactical call for activists is to elect the politicians they're most able to cajole, persuade, and pressure. That means viewing politicians in a different light...

The United Electrical Workers was one of America’s mightiest unions. Many leaders were leftists who challenged corporate power, so UE was decimated by McCarthyism. The union survived and UE's model of militant, democratic unionism can revive labor.

Japanese media reported 100 cases of COVID-19 among U.S. military personnel following “reports of troops taking part in parties in downtown areas and beaches around July 4 to celebrate Independence Day.”

Students tend to measure fair compensation on two scales. How many years of training and/or dollars of tuition did a worker have to invest to become “qualified” for the job? And how important is that worker’s labor to the rest of society?

After sexist attack by GOP colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on House floor, her parents 'Did Not Raise Me to Accept Abuse From Men'. "It is cultural. It is a culture of...impunity, of accepting violence and violent language against women."

I would vote for Joe Biden even if I believed Reade's account. Fortunately, I don't have to sacrifice morality to political necessity. Four more years of Trump will replace what remains of our democracy with unchecked rule by fascists and fanatics..