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‘Punched in the nose’: Trump policies fuel sense of ‘anger,’ ‘betrayal’ in Canada

Canada is going through a period of transition and Canadians feel “galvanized” as it faces an “existential” threat from Donald…

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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin

Set in upper-class, patriarchal Louisiana society, ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin is one of the first works of feminist literature…

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Rep. Bennie Thompson: the ‘Al Greens of the world’ show people how to stand up to Trump

Rep. Al Green (D-TX) defied and disrupted Donald Trump during the joint session of Congress, and Mississippi congressman Bennie Thompson…

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‘The unfinished business of the freedom movement’: 60 years after Bloody Sunday

The atrocity of “Bloody Sunday” helped move public sentiment, and eventually helped bring about the passage of the landmark voting…

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Courts, but also the ‘power of the people’ will counter Trump’s fascism

With the Trump administration signaling it may defy lower court orders, it will ultimately fall to the Supreme Court to…

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‘Blatant cronyism’: Trump’s gutting of the civil service has historic parallels to ‘spoils system’

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until…

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Censured Rep. Al Green: ‘We have to move forward with righteous incivility’

House Republicans are pushing for Congressman Al Green to be stripped of his committee assignments following his protest during President…

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Trump DOJ wants to ‘pump the brakes’ on abortion suits, creeping toward goal of nation-wide ban

On Tuesday, the DOJ dismissed a Biden-era lawsuit against Idaho over its nearly total abortion ban, and separately, it requested…

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 Edward Fishman: How the U.S. turned the global financial system into a potent weapon of war

In the last two decades, a new form of economic warfare has emerged, pioneered by officials from the George W.…