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Healing the dual miseries of COVID-19 and economic insecurity requires relief sufficient to ensure that all individuals, their families and their loved ones can live through this pandemic. The time to go big is now.

Some 4 million Texans are without heat, 12 million are facing water problems, and hundreds are victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. But, the leadership of Texas, a state captured by the fossil fuel industry, has no plans for future extreme events.

The Green New Deal is all about a jobs and justice approach to climate policies, so I think that the new climate corps proposal really encapsulates that. One of the most popular programs from the New Deal is making a comeback, nearly 90 years later.

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Despite the carnage of contemporary Syria and Libya, and the ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of what was once described as the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region.

More than ever, many entrenched Democrats are worried about primary challenges from the left. Such fears are all to the good.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.

"If we continue with large ongoing emissions as we are at present, we will commit the world to meters of sea level rise over coming centuries."

The new Biko premiered in December as part of Peace Through Music: A Global Event for Social Justice, a virtual fundraising event in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund featuring over 200 performers.