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This refusal to learn is the shadow of the Vietnam War that hangs over us now as our nation appears to be losing its soul and the Trump regime demonstrates not only how to ignore history but how to erase it, as if it’s an easily edited website.

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A judge has blocked a key part of the president’s attempt to rewrite election rules. “Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections.”

In the U.S.—and across much of the world—fertility rates are falling, and populations are projected to shrink. People are having fewer children because the system makes it too hard, too risky, and too expensive.

The Supreme Court is poised to open the floodgates to mandatory taxpayer support for religious education across the country, striking down restrictions on religious charter schools. The right-wing justices seem unconcerned about the consequences.

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, JJ Johnson reflects on the journey that led him, along with two fellow Fort Hood soldiers, to refuse orders to Vietnam. He compares then to our situation today, "the darkest period in my lifetime."

A powerful speech in the Bundestag made her famous and has inspired young voters to fight back against the far right. We don’t work with or vote with the AfD. It’s rightwing extremist. We’re leftwing. It’s part of our DNA to be anti-fascist

It’s coming, and we know approximately when. The economy contracted by 0.3 percent, and imports have contracted. Tariffs of 145 percent on China are a trade embargo for many sectors. China’s retaliatory measures are an embargo in the other direction.

A federal judge freed Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student leader at Columbia University, who was part of the pro-Palestine protests. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,”

The history of anti-colonial organizing shows there is room for joint struggle — but only if the partnership aims to promote true equality and justice.