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High tide of protests worldwide

For decades, Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. Parton gave a voice to those who are all too often forgotten. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.

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.

“We need more depictions of women having full lives,” AOC said on Instagram, while documenting freezing her eggs. She is refusing to disappear the reality of maintaining a female body, working instead to fuse body and mind on the public stage.

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.

Big news from Latin America

Left confers in South Africa without ANC

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

The age of unreason

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