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A new study says that income inequality, not historic factors, feeds the present-day gulf in wealth between white and black households.

From Kamala Harris to Lori Lightfoot, former prosecutors are rewriting their own histories to present themselves as progressive.

With a black mayor at the helm once again, it remains to be seen whether a Harold Washington-style African-American and Latino coalition can emerge to fight for socioeconomic and political parity with whites in Chicago.

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The Irish left must oppose the recreation of a wall dividing Ireland as part of Brexit. Borders mean conflict. Borders mean war.

A meteor 66 million years ago killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction. The death scene of the hour of impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.

The scandal may not be a crime. It’s a betrayal.

The Algerian Army’s Chief of Staff has called upon parliament to declare President Abdelaziz Bouteflika unfit and replace him with a caretaker. But leaders of Algeria’s massive protest movement have rejected the ploy, demanding more systemic change.

The bombs start again. Israel, as if on a timer, begins to pulverize Gaza. The bombs strike from one end of the country to another, a warning against the protests that have been ongoing for a year.

Mobilizing to protect our planet could help us build an economy that works for all working people. The resolution calls for “a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era.”