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CPAC Speakers Made “Genocidal” Comments Against Trans Community, Observers Warn
The GOP has the goal of “pushing trans people out of public life and eradicating transness,” says ACLU's Chase Strangio.
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Religious Groups Are Challenging SCOTUS Ruling Against LGBTQ Discrimination
The plaintiffs are seeking religious exemption from hiring LGBTQ employees.
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Indigenous Leader Is Barred From Running in Guatemala’s Presidential Election
The Guatemalan Constitutional Court upheld a decision to bar human rights defender Thelma Cabrera from running.
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Palestinian Survivor Calls Israeli Settler Attack in Huwara “Ethnic Cleansing”
Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said Huwara needs to be “wiped out” and that the state should do it.
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Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Biden’s Student Debt Plan
Writer Eleni Schirmer, who organizes with the Debt Collective, discusses the future of student debt.
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Migrant Kids in the US Are Forced Into Dangerous Jobs for Major Brands
The Biden administration on Monday announced it would crack down on the use of migrant child labor in the U.S.
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Will the Equal Rights Amendment Finally Be Added to the US Constitution?
The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss a joint resolution to finally affirm the amendment.
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We Face a Climate Abyss, But There Are Sparks of Hope, Robert Pollin Says
We must embrace the positive developments so that we can build effectively from them, the progressive economist argues.
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Calls Grow for Rail Safety Laws as Officials Deem Ohio Derailment Preventable
Residents of East Palestine demand answers as reports on the ground indicate a growing public health crisis.
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A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left
Leftists in Ukraine are simultaneously resisting Russian imperialism and the domestic imposition of neoliberalism.