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Republicans backed down because they feared a showdown over Black voting rights. They slowed down because the backlash was already working.

A proposed new rule would place all research and other federal grants under the control of political appointees. “It would dismantle the US science ecosystem – but also all federal discretionary grants.”

These troops helped transform a conflict fought initially to preserve the Union into one that destroyed slavery as well.

I came back from China impressed, troubled, and more convinced than before that the most important political battles of the coming decades will be fought not over ideology, but over infrastructure.

Janeese Lewis George, a member of DSA since 2018, will become the first democratic socialist elected to lead the nation's capital.

The Democratic establishment has made some huge mistakes—but progressives are running savvier campaigns than they used to. The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party is alive again, with progressives winning key primaries around the country

Society has treated parenting as a private endeavor. But what if raising children is also a public good? The sheer logistical and financial madness of raising children in America is now officially a matter of political concern.

A new history of the 113-year-old advocacy group highlights its lifelong history of Zionist antagonism toward the left. Early on there was an antagonism by German Jewish leaders already here to the mass of Jewish immigrants newly arriving

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A Place for Us All was born out of joint Jewish-Palestinian activism and organizing focused on the daily realities on the ground, not grandiose policies.