For the first time in any language the National Security Archive is publishing a translation of the first meeting between Khrushchev and Raul Castro on July 18, 1960, providing new insight into what each side wanted, expected and promised.
Democrats finally seem to realize that accountability is more important than risk avoidance
The people of Florida have a right and a responsibility to protect themselves from violence. But death sentences have never been proven to decrease crime and violence.
Almost half a century of fighting brought the country to its nadir, and there is no clear way out of the misery.
Just Mercy challenges us not just to abolish the cruel, oppressive, and racist system of death sentencing, but to move beyond soul-killing modes of thought that are part of what make such systems of oppression possible in the first place.
Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists
"The move to privatize Medicare," said one expert, has "been very profitable, in part because insurers are good at making their patients seem sicker."
Last week, Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her courage in interrogating France’s collective memory. Her work has been concerned with the lives of working-class women, which her books have treated with an uncommon dignity and respect.
Russia’s economy ministry, as reported by Reuters citing government documents, says that expected Russian energy export revenues will reach $338bn in 2022 which is nearly $100bn or a third more than the $244bn figure for last year. This is in large part because Russia was able to reroute two-thirds of its lost sales to the West to countries such as India and China through which it entered the world oil market.
America has long faced structural economic crises. Democrats must win on the economy and present a pro-worker agenda. Now is the time for Democrats to take the fight to the reactionary Republican party and expose their anti-worker views
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