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Paper Genocide: The Barriers to an Accurate Count of Native People in 2020
Undercounting American Indians and Alaska Natives wreaks havoc on tribal communities today and for generations to come.
A Rising Movement Is Challenging Mexico’s Corporatized Unions
The 20/32 Movement promises to end the decades-long reign of corrupt union bosses.
Progressives Rebel as House Hands Trump War Spending Package
The “Afghanistan Papers” loom large over the military spending debate.
FBI Agents Showed Bias Against Hillary Clinton, Not Against Trump, DOJ Says
Numerous FBI agents sent anti-Clinton text messages and expressed a desire to investigate the Clinton Foundation.
Morales’s Coup Fits a Long Pattern in Bolivian History
The U.S. government has opposed Evo Morales since he came to power in 2006, but U.S. meddling goes back even further.
Pelosi Backs Down After House Progressives Push to Strengthen Drug Pricing Bill
The bill now doubles the number of drugs whose prices will be negotiated under the plan and bans price-gouging.
Pharmacist-Prescribed Birth Control Could Broaden Access, Lower Costs
Thirteen states and Washington, D.C., allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal birth control.
Protesters Call for Climate Justice at the Peoples’ Summit in Chile
An alternative conference to COP25 is pushing for social justice to become central to international climate discussions.
Anti-Trans Discrimination Begins in the Classroom
Trans students' Title IX rights — and the federal definition of “sex” — now hang in the balance.
UK Politicians Are Cynically Using London Bridge Attack to Drum Up Votes
Reactions from both Conservative and Labour leaders hark back to failed “tough on crime” policies of the 1980s.