Seventy years after Paul Robeson testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, his searing testimony continues to echo.
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Norman Vincent Peale authored the blueprint for generations of admit-no-error narcissists on the make — including a young Donald Trump.
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The streamer’s popularity has everything to do with the moral bankruptcy of establishment Democrats and their allies in the media.
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According to reports from the BBC and other international media, Russian dissident artist Robert Kuzovkov has been shot dead in eastern Poland
Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell nearly died after childbirth when her symptoms were repeatedly brushed aside, despite her high-risk medical history. She says her experience reflects the broader maternal health crisis facing Black women in America.
The post ‘Nope, You’re Fine’: This Black Doctor Nearly Died After Giving Birth in Reno appeared first on Ms. Magazine.
After a decade lost to indecision and treading the perceived high ground, the Democrats are finally ready to redistrict like our lives depend on it.
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With unprecedented visa restrictions, the Trump administration has made it difficult for fans and others to participate in this year's tournament.
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The Albanian prime minister is trying to blame Iran for growing protests against the Trump family’s island grab. But the outrage is real.
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Despite years of company denials, a groundbreaking new report explicitly proves Maersk's shipment of bullet, bomb, and mortar components for Israel. Accountability is overdue for Maersk's complicity in the ongoing Gaza genocide.
Communities in the tournament's host cities are holding know-your-rights trainings and ICE-free events to keep immigrants safe.
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The region’s prevailing narrative of individualism and conservatism obscures a rich labor history centered around worker solidarity, public health and progressive attitudes toward equality and class.
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Activist and lawyer Flavia Agnes tells us why securing women’s rights today seems much harder than it was in the ‘80s and argues that legislative reform is a battle half won without litigation support.
The DHS routinely describes undocumented immigrants as sexual predators while employing men accused of child sexual abuse, rape and other gender-based violence.
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The common wisdom says it's a losing issue. Evidence suggests otherwise.
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JPMorgan again tops the list of banks embracing “disaster capitalism” as climate deregulation policies inspire more industry investments, new report finds.
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At the very least, it must stop the Trump family immunity deal that he devised and signed.
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Organizaciones criminales como Los Ardillos están aterrorizando a las comunidades locales en un esfuerzo por ampliar su control sobre valiosos yacimientos minerales.
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The decade opened amid a pandemic, economic upheaval and a reckoning over democracy itself.
In early 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, seemingly bringing a nearly 50-year constitutional struggle to a historic milestone.
Yet within months, COVID-19 exposed the deep inequalities that feminists had long warned about. Millions of women—especially women of…
The 1990s began with feminists determined not to surrender the ground they had fought for in the Reagan era—and almost immediately, the stakes became impossible to ignore.
In October 1991, millions of Americans watched Anita Hill testify before an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee about sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Outside the hearing room, seven…
Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir and film _Persepolis_ , has died, aged 56. The death of this much loved Iranian French artist, graphic novelist, filmmaker and activist has been met with widespread celebration of her life—and its dedication to resistance, freedom and humanity. French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to “a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a…
The oyster farmer is a muscled Homer Simpson — the blunderingly caring lummox doing his best, whom we’re culturally predisposed to hug and forgive while he figures it all out.
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James Talarico has the political winds at his back as he faces off against a scandal-plagued Ken Paxton.
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Strip away the moralizing and the sequence is obvious: an inconvenient insurgent, internal material weaponized by his own side, a Republican-linked source and a calendar tuned to a removal-and-replace statute.
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It was a balmy August morning in Lancashire, a county in North West England known for its sweeping landscapes and greenery. But back in 2014, their idyllic community was facing an outside threat: Cuadrilla, an oil and gas giant and the only company in the United Kingdom with a license to frack, was about to commence shale gas exploration. If the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, went ahead, then…
In Geneva, governments are negotiating the first binding global standard that codifies protections for gig workers and regulate their AI bosses.
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New York State’s Common Retirement Fund holds more than $367 million in Israel Bonds, which provide financial support for Israel’s ongoing brutality against the Palestinian people. The state of New York must end its complicity in genocide.
Pride events have been canceled in several states as LGBTQIA+ organizers point to a hostile political landscape.
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Sara Dosa’s latest documentary is an emotional plea to save the planet.
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My family's custodianship of David's tomb suggests that civic life begins before citizenship and survives beyond sovereignty. The United States at its 250th anniversary must grapple with the fact that it has spent decades breaking with the principles of its own founding documents.
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