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‘For many, it’s the first time in their life that they can see people within the system trying to help them, trying to reduce barriers to their success,’ says one attorney

The problem with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent grilling on Palestine by CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil isn’t that it was rude. It’s that Dokoupil’s questioning betrays a fundamental lack of concern for Palestinians’ basic humanity, shared across mainstream me

What’s happening in the Middle East was enabled by a president with ideological priors, aides who failed to push back, and a cheerleading media establishment.

"Knowingly enabling someone like Donald Trump to return to office, whether by voting directly for him or for a third-party candidate, is both a moral and a strategic failure." [Full letter from Islamic Imans and Clerics, listing signers is below]

October 7 should have handed Israel's wild-eyed right the perfect storm for success: wartime rallying and vengeful fury. So why don't the polls over the past year back that up?

Monday on The View, Vice President Kamala Harris’ announced a proposal to expand Medicare to cover long-term care at home could be the most meaningful shift in our system in decades.

A new Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey shows Harris leading nationally by 38 points, with around a third of students reporting they are more likely to cast a ballot because she’s top of the ticket.

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Stark differences color red- and blue-state lawmakers’ policy choices—which makes all the difference in residents’ well-being.

This election may be America’s last stand against this country becoming, like Hungary and Russia, a full-on oligarchy run of, by, and for a small, malevolent group of the morbidly rich.