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The Handmaid's Tale is a work of fiction. But fictions can give rise to imaginings that can become the kind of future horror the show describes, if we allow it.
We need more action on legislation that would ban Congressional stock trading. And fewer members of Congress in violation of the rules already on the books.
Military contractors and arms manufacturers and other weapons industry players cash in as Congress adds billions to the Pentagon budget each year.
As a new wave of voter suppression restrictions makes voting harder for people who struggle to read — now 1 in 5 Americans — people like Olivia Coley-Pearson have taken up the fight, even if it makes her a target.
A year after COVID-19 had first ripped through the United States, Republican lawmakers in Montana passed the nation’s most extreme anti-vaccination law. Not even nurses in a cancer ward could be required to get the shots.
As historic floods beset several states, a new study finds that warming could make a California “megaflood” more dangerous, and likely, than previously thought.
Preserving pieces of history has taken on added importance amid a heated national debate about how the nation’s history of centuries of slavery and oppression of Black people should be taught.
A Federal judge basically said that using the Preventive Services Task Force (a nongovernmental volunteer advisory panel) recommendations to compel the offering of free services violates the Constitution.
The consequences of inadequate infrastructure maintenance are compounded by climate change, which is accelerating failures with increased flooding, extreme heat and growing storm intensity.
Happy tax times — for the rich — don’t come carved in stone. Tax laws can and do change. Public anger can increase the tax-auditing pressure on grand private fortunes.
Elizabeth II inherited a monarchy whose political power had been steadily ebbing away since the 18th century but whose role in the public life of the nation seemed, if anything, to have grown ever more important.
The posturing outrage of the former guy tells us a lot more than the fact that he's pissed about the FBI taking away his secret document stash. It tells us that he has more to hide—a lot more.
Wealthier neighborhoods in St. Louis have armed themselves with private police, giving them a level of service poor areas can’t afford and fueling racial and economic disparities.
Concrete production one of the most difficult industries to decarbonize. However, difficult does not necessarily mean impossible.
We should be sick to our stomachs right now, watching an entire political party dismantling the rights of women and realizing how poisonous this all is to the hearts and minds of our boys who will emulate these assaults.
In what may be the first use of the 14th Amendment's Section 3 disqualification clause, Otero County New Mexico County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin was removed from office.
