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One of the country’s leading progressive political strategists and visionaries, Cobble never stopped believing that ‘a better world is possible.’

Up until the 1500s, brewing was primarily women’s work – that is, until a smear campaign accused women brewers of being witches.

They are using the filibuster, so that 41 GOP senators, representing just 21% of the country, can block everything from a $15 minimum wage to legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act.

The fear of black power drives today’s right wing politics. 

To build a strong and durable left, healthy leadership and process is necessary. When accountability can be built, it makes for a stronger organization, and if it’s successful, leadership isn’t so lonely and exhausting.

This is a battle between those who want to ensure permanent white minority rule vs. all those who believe this country must become a multiracial democracy. It’s daily trench warfare on every front, with USA's future if not the entire planet at stake.

Drones criss-crossing the skies and hunting for high-value targets create a distraction from actual crises afflicting people in Afghanistan. U.S. drone surveillance potentially sets the stage for criminal assassination.

The student, who lives in the West Bank, was barred from receiving a vaccine after traveling for hours to the university for a campus-wide vaccination drive.

Massachusetts spent 20 years refining its own mass vaccination plan. Then it looked elsewhere.