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The Democrats’ problem is not age. It’s corporate and centrist Democrats of all ages.

As the Trump Administration guts the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA patients and workers are fighting to save it.

The government shutdown was a test showing where progressive forces are strong and where they’re weak. The results are in after last night’s Democratic capitulation to the GOP: most top union leaders are failing to meet the moment.

Mayors actually govern. And by any historical measure, Zohran Mamdani will be the first socialist to hold significant governing power in U.S. history.

Scorned Black Soldiers Rescue Yankee Doodle (1775), CIA Won’t Give Guatemala a Break (1960), Jim Crow on Parade (1865), ‘Give Peace a Chance’ (1969), Racist Terror at Its Worst (1900), Honoring Frederick Douglass (2015)

Military contractors called for — and are now getting — contracts to help carry out Trump’s mass deportations, with a bounty for every immigrant they track down.

Artists in New York City are using their art to strengthen the Mexican community in the face of federal immigration raids.

Our planet in the balance

The seemingly unending barrage of stressful news is a strategy with ties to the past.

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself.