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Our classrooms are not sites of demoralized children who hate themselves and their country. Students are hungry for explanations — real explanations — for the world they have inherited.

US justifications for intervention ignore the ways in which Haiti has rarely, if ever, been allowed to manage its own affairs

When you compare Trump’s cons with the $50 trillion that the GOP has swindled out of the American working class and given to the top 1 percent since 1980, Trump looks like a piker

In her defense of voting rights, Jackson brilliantly turned the tables on the right by crafting her own originalist argument to defend taking race into account when drawing district maps.

We need to build a far-reaching global mass movement to defeat the authoritarian, neo-fascist threat to democratic rights and a better, more egalitarian future.

Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

Daniel Foote, the former special envoy to Haiti, has offered scorching criticism of plans to meddle in the ongoing democratic crisis that has gripped the nation.

Backed by faith communities, the housing justice movement is racking up wins against landlords and banks profiting off of what should be a human right.

Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists