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Shirley Chisholm and other Black women have set their eyes on the Oval Office for 50 years. Now it’s within reach.

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30

At a time of pandemic-related crises all throughout our society, the crisis in childcare is particularly brutal. There’s only one solution: free public early childhood education for all.

What if state officials targeted people who shared an Instagram post criticizing the government for criminalizing the poor and not providing mass testing or economic relief?

The 1970 murder of a U.S. police advisor in Uruguay offers lessons for police reform debates today.

The more U.S. movements are infused with internationalism, the more we contribute to getting Washington’s bloody hands out of other countries. That bolsters the capacity of people in other lands to improve their lives and fight our common enemy.

QAnon has grown from an internet joke to a national political threat - and fuels emerging fascism on the march behind Trump

Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.

Political interference in the U.S. Postal Service isn't new, according to Winifred Gallagher, the author of How the Post Office Created America.

How the race to develop treatments and a vaccine will create a historic windfall for the industry — and everyone else will pay the price.