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“It vibrates different, its rhythm is different, it’s gaining cultural significance that resonates beyond conventional political metrics."

The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access.

The killing of Hamas’s political leader has raised tensions yet again. Only a ceasefire in Gaza offers any prospect of peace

Sudan is home to the world’s largest hunger crisis, as the war continues to devastate lives and livelihoods. As in Gaza, the deprivation is deliberate.

Even after nearly six decades of Medicare’s overall success, we must continually protect it from conservatives’ attempts to cut and privatize the program.

"My aunt said after we all left, after the planes came and we all left, she said the village was so quiet because there was no children. No children in the village," another student from Alaska told a panel convened to hear from boarding students...

Steward, CVS, and United Health all have one thing in common

In the quarter century since Hugo Chavez initiated the Bolivarian Revolution when he was elected president in 1998, the Chavistas have won all but two of over thirty national contests.

Freedom Summer Digs In (1964), Warsaw Uprising Begins (1944), Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson (1944), A Big Win for Free Speech (1929), Beach Days for the Masses (1929), ‘We Seek No Wider War’ (1964), Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (1964)