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With the feeling that there’s a “war on science” afoot, savvy scientists are thinking about how to defend their work.

Running up the deficit so extravagantly would serve two strategic purposes.

Commentators Melvin Rogers, Patrisse Cullors, Carol Anderson and Shailja Patel discuss the impact of the debate and struggle for racial equality.

Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change.

The left’s role is to move opposition in the direction of politics — enabling working people to apply pressure when it can change the situation in their favor, building their (small-d) democratic strength. This is our mission inside and outside the Democratic Party, in social movements, in unions and in intellectual settings.

"As the winds of war are blowing in our world," Pope makes appeal for an end to conflicts that impact the world's children."

With so many good people feeling depressed, let’s point to the positive things that happened, even in this really, really bad year.

For my part, I see value in putting Coates’s and West’s perspectives in dialogue. To be clear, I am not interested in repeating or endorsing West’s critique here, and Coates needs no one to defend him, certainly not me. I believe that the reconciliation of their respective insights might open new directions.

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