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Even social distancing sparks a culture war. Even Britney gets woke. And more revelations

Untold thousands will likely die, absent federal intervention. And it needs to happen this instant. Why won't the president help?

Prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers can expect to see a largely “uncontrolled, unflattened curve” relating to the coronavirus outbreak, an epidemiology professor said.

Prison workers are making a product they aren’t permitted to protect themselves with

The new director of the Working Families Party in New York wants to unite the left against Governor Andrew Cuomo and his austerity politics.

For too long, Jewish communal institutions have adopted a “just us” approach. The ADL and United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, two central organizers of Sunday’s march, have long histories of demonizing Muslim and Palestinian communities...

Democrats, leading both chambers of the New York legislature for the first time in nearly a decade, enacted an agenda that was undeniably liberal, often landmark, and for those in the majority, made up for lost time

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The Working Families Party has achieved its goal of flipping the New York State Senate — but now faces a threat to its very existence.