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Reader Comments: Rape Culture and the Cornell Seven; Dilemmas of Socialist Governance of a Capitalist State; Measles; Statement From Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on the Third Anniversary of October 7; Hands Off Cuba - Let Cuba Live Virtual Event; more

Americans like socialism after all

It's not just those tasked to protect young women who fail them. It's all of us. Doe told Cornell’s student newspaper that in the aftermath of her rape, she was disappointed by the lack of support she got from the student community.

Reader Comments: Stopping Sexual Violence; So many privileged and protected kids; Rising Leftist Party Hopes To Turn Back Germany’s Fascist Wave; Mark Carney Is Taking Aim at Canada’s Labor Movement; Israel’s Elimination Project; Announcements;

The hatred of women is serious - and the left's inability to accept or grapple with that fact is no small problem. In a country where men are perpetually protected, women talking about assault is the real act of violence.

The populist movement propelling Graham Platner’s senatorial campaign sees a replacement in former state senator Troy Jackson. The energy behind this politics of change is genuinely real and organic. Wednesday evening, Platner suspended his campaign

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

Reader Comments: Iran War Quagmire; Let’s Make No Kings 3 Largest Antiwar Protest in U.S. History; Allegations of Sexual Violence by Cesar Chavez; One Battle After Another - Differing Perspectives; Putin’s repression of left opponents of Ukraine war

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, lynching, and rape. This is what the GOP really is - this is the young GOP, starting with the New York Young Republicans - "I Love Hitler"

Reader Comments: Trump's Pick for Attorney General: Rapist Gaetz; Democrats’ Path Back To Power; Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election; Second Ku Klux Klan; Stop Blaming People for Wanting to Afford the Basics of Living; Cartoons, and more...