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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

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;

Women are not exempt in Israel’s eyes from being killed, from being assassinated, from being targeted. And in that sense they’re paying just as heavy a price in life as are the men.

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Not satisfied with the end of legal abortion in America, the anti-abortion movement seems poised to end the era of affordable contraception. The result isn’t just the end of Title X as we knew it. It’s the demise of a long-held bipartisan consensus

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

Sen. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue, if she’s interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal. His investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers

Reader Comments: Trump Tariffs Tanked Economy; How Dems Can Win by Organizing From the County Up; Library Assn Sues To Stop Trump Cuts; New Resource - Black Federal Workers by State; Webinar-Labor and the Crisis Of Democracy; Cartoons and more....