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Researchers throughout the globe are asking, and attempting to answer, why one parent without identifiable risk factors becomes critically ill while their spouse and children never test positive or are able to manage their symptoms at home.

It strains credulity to think that a US war with Russia would make the American people safer or more prosperous. To the contrary, going to war with Russia, a nuclear peer of the United States, would expose Americans to vast and unnecessary risks.

The youngest president in the history of the Andean nation is being inaugurated today. He’s got a difficult job ahead of him.

A propaganda campaign using Russian TicTok influencers features the themes of “Russian Lives Matter,” the Z Dance and Real Women glamorizes the invasion of Ukraine.

Even when human solidarity in the West is justly expressed with Ukraine, we cannot overlook its racist context. Official empathy is nowhere to be found when violence is directed against non-Europeans, in general, towards Palestinians, in particular.

Far too often, no-knock warrants and raids have severe and deadly consequences, resulting in property damage, trauma, and death.

The war continues — as the fight for democracy and equality deepens and broadens

The troubling history and dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other extreme right-wing groups in Ukraine cannot be forgotten.

My overriding hope is that current talks may lead to peace, to an end of death and destruction, and to the repair and renewal of all efforts to build a world without exploitation, without aggrandizement, without aggression, without war.