Surveys have shown that the idea of lowering the Medicare eligibility age—which has been at 65 or older since the program's inception in 1965—is popular with the American public.
Georgia was the first Southern state to pass a poll tax to disenfranchise newly emancipated Black voters during Reconstruction. Now it’s one of the first states to pass sweeping new voting restrictions, based on Trump’s lies about a stolen election.
"We have canvassers and organizers who are ready to go. We saw a huge difference when we engaged and organized communities in terms of the [election] turnout in Southwest Georgia. The same can be done with accessing the vaccine."
It's time to make a militant case for government that is every bit as emotive and powerful as the forty-year case against, which was so compelling that it persuaded millions of people to vote for their own subjugation.
Oil companies knew 50 years ago the huge damage they were doing. Their motive to ignore it is the same now as it was then.
Bernie Sanders didn’t win the 2020 election. But he may have won its aftermath. The Vermont senator discusses the Rescue Act, cancel culture, the filibuster and more.
Vietnamese and Asian Americans in this country, we are here because of wars that the United States fought in Asia. This is a country of high ideals, of democracy and pluralism; on the other hand, it’s rooted in warfare and conquest...
The PayUp campaign has clawed back $22 billion from apparel companies owed to factories and workers, and they’re just getting started.
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The mass shooting in Atlanta was many things, but it was NOT a white man's "bad day." It was, surely, another day of being a woman and an Asian person struggling to leave their marks on a blemished patchwork quilt.
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