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Many countries still go to war believing that God is on their side. Just as dangerous are those that believe that they will win because technology is on their side.

Chavez was the public figure, but Huerta and farmworkers across America, including in Illinois, carried the farm labor movement. Metro Chicago has more agricultural workers than other parts of Illinois — they tend nurseries and landscape or mow lawns

President Trump used an Easter lunch to talk about how we can’t take care of kids or sick people—we can only take care of the U.S. military. His message for his base - Listen here.

Based on oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems poised to block Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Six justices, three Republicans, scoffed at his efforts to overrule birthright citizenship rights spelled out in the 14th Amendment.

Republicans don't need to gut the social safety net again in order to pass Trump's latest series of priorities. But that's not what they'll tell you. GOP will attempt to push SAVE America Act and war funding into new Reconciliation Bill.

Legal viability aside, the new law reveals a deeper question, reflecting a perverse dissonance in Israeli society: Why are Jewish terrorists spared the noose while Arab ones are hanged?

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Burdened by decades of neocolonialism and corruption, Senegal faces an all-too-familiar dilemma faced by countries across the Global South: how to pursue sovereign development under the weight of debt.

Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

The abolitionist vision of national and egalitarian citizenship that the radical Republicans embedded into the Constitution was forged in direct opposition to the notion that citizenship is a privilege rather than a natural right bestowed by birth.