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Google Is Coming After Critics in Academia and Journalism. It’s Time To Stop Them

Kamala Harris to Co-Sponsor Bernie's Medicare for All Bill

Blasts at chemical plant spark new worry in storm-soaked Texas

Port Arthur, TX Faces New Oil Refinery Environmental Crisis Following Hurricane Harvey Floods (VIDEO)

New York Times Slammed for Running 'Advertorial' by Notorious War Profiteer

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Mean More Jobs

Hurricane Harvey hits Louisiana as Texas hunts for survivors (VIDEO)

Rightwing alliance plots assault to 'defund and defang' America's unions

Chris Hedges: Agenda of hate with Ajamu Baraka

LA changes Columbus Day to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ as statues continue to be destroyed

AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka Slams White House Full of 'Racists' and 'Wall Streeters'

What the Abolition of the British Slave Trade Can Teach Us About Free Speech

Houston’s “Unrestrained Capitalism” Made Harvey “Catastrophe Waiting to Happen”

Storm Harvey paralyzes a fifth of U.S. fuel output

Two lawsuits challenge Trump's transgender military ban

Tropical storm Harvey displaces 30,000 in Texas

"This Is the New Normal": How Climate Change Is Fueling Massive Storms like Harvey

Harvey floods Houston as residents hunker down for days of storms

Trump pardons ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio

DUTERTE'S WAR ON DRUGS: Death of a schoolboy

The Conflict in Afghanistan Is Trump's War Now

Texas Racist Voter ID Law Smacked Down

Former Trump Adviser Warns of Armed 'Insurrection' If Trump Impeached

Iowa becomes 47th US state to recognize Armenian Genocide

‘US doesn’t want Afghanistan war to end – it's cash cow for Pentagon, contractors’

Our swastika anchor doesn’t endorse Nazism – Canadian mayor

State Department science envoy Daniel Kammen resigned Wednesday

Charlottesville shrouds divisive Confederate statues in black cloth

Oregon Passed the Country's Most Progressive Reproductive Health Care Policy

UN issues rare warning over 'alarming' racism in US

Robert Kuttner on His Extraordinary Interview with Steve Bannon (VIDEO)

Secret Safe Injection Site Responds to US Drug Crisis

Helen Mirren Politely, Completely Rips Ivanka Trump

Blue Is Not A Race (Duh) and You're Not The Damn Victims Here

Trump's a Racist — Don't Tell Me Otherwise

Detroit's Urban Farming Revolution

Native Americans seek to reclaim ancestral land from Brown University

Trump’s betrayal is complete as military-industrial complex continues expansion of power

BANNON’S BREITBART SLAMS TRUMP FOR AFGHANISTAN “FLIP-FLOP”

Trump Joins Bush and Obama on Afghanistan War Plan

Missouri halts execution of Marcellus Williams

Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban of killer robots

Dick Gregory In His Own Words: Remembering the Pioneering Comedian and Civil Rights Activist (VIDEO)

Anger simmers in Philippines over Duterte's drug war

Jane Mayer on the Mercers & the Dark Money Behind the Rise of Trump & Bannon (VIDEO)

Social Security: Still the Most Efficient Way to Provide Retirement Income

Sadness and cynicism as London's Big Ben falls silent

Jerry Lewis, entertainment icon, dead at 91

New York City police show support of Colin Kaepernick

Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle

Marcellus Williams faces execution despite new evidence

Lawrence Wilkerson: Under Trump, Al Qaeda is Flourishing

Marijuana Becomes a Player in California Politics and It's Putting Its Money on Gavin Newsom

U.S. warship Indianapolis found 18,000 feet deep in Pacific Ocean

Trump Attacks Boston Anti-Racism Demonstrators as 'Anti-Police Agitators'

Campuses, cities reject far right after Charlottesville

Taylor Swift starts giving to charities for sex-assault victims after trial win

ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville

Trump fires controversial chief strategist Bannon

Elizabeth Warren Says Days of 'Lukewarm' Policies Are Over

Museum or dumpster? U.S. cities wrestle with Confederate statues' fate

An Open Letter From Great, Great Grandsons of Stonewall Jackson

Iran Will Change When the US Changes

Durant says will boycott White House, slams Trump

Titans' DaQuan Jones: Don't want to be labeled as 'a Colin Kaepernick'

Van plows through crowd in Barcelona, deaths reported

Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism

BPA Breakthrough: New Treatment Takes Controversial Chemical Out of Water

Trump defends monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy

20-Year-Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.

White Supremacy Carries More Than a Tiki Torch

Mass burials after devastating Sierra Leone mudslide

Internet firms shift stance, move to exile white supremacists

A Look at the Anti-Fascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets (VIDEO)

‘Not a true Italian’: Black teen barred from singing in Verona music festival

Trump disbands business councils after CEOs exit in protest

Baltimore removes 4 Confederate statues overnight amid fears of violence

Far-right lauds Trump amid Charlottesville backlash

The Roots of the Philippines Trafficking Epidemic

Virginia rally victim's message 'magnified,' mother tells memorial

Brazil set for landmark indigenous land rights ruling

Police Stood by as Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville

Africa-Israel summit 'justifies colonialism, apartheid'

Uproar Over Omarosa Manigault-Newman at Black Journalists Convention

White House's Omarosa Manigault Jeered During Panel Talk

Saudi Arabia to reopen border with Iraq after 27 years

Trump Cut Funds for Group Fighting White Supremacy

One person dead as driver rams car into French pizzeria

Bridges and Roads Are as Important to Your Health as What's in Your Medicine Cabinet

The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh

Hundreds feared dead in mudslide near Freetown

Saudi crown prince wants out of Yemen war, leaked emails reveal

Remembering partition: 'It was like a slaughter house'

California to sue Trump administration over sanctuary policy

Merck CEO resigns from Trump council over Charlottesville

Tehran to send fleet to West Atlantic, says Iranian rear admiral

Let Me Remind You Who Jeff Sessions Is

Cornel West & Rev. Traci Blackmon on Torch-Wielding Nazis in Virginia (VIDEO)

University of Virginia's Historical Ties to KKK & White Nationalist Alums Richard Spencer & Jason Kessler (VIDEO)

Media Downplays Wells Fargo's Latest Scandals

US tourist beaten for giving Hitler salute in Dresden, Germany

Charlottesville is America everywhere

Rethinking Schools: How to Talk About Nuclear War and Donald Trump with 2nd-Graders

David Duke Blasts Trump’s Call for Unity: ‘It Was White Americans Who Put You in the Presidency’

Trump’s Remarks on Charlottesville Violence Are Criticized as Insufficient

Terror in Charlottesville: Car Rams into Anti-Racist Protesters at White Supremacist Rally

Charlottesville: man charged with murder after car rams counter-protesters at far-right event

Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition

World's oldest man and Holocaust survivor dies at 113

Clashes Break Out as Virginia Declares State of Emergency

Venezuela: Trump Threat of US Military Intervention "Madness" of US Imperialism

Charlottesville prepares for a white nationalist rally on Saturday

Canadian diplomat in Cuba also treated for hearing loss

The US's Endless Wars Are Terrorism for Profit

Intl. Community recoils as Saudi Arabia goes on 'Crusade' of mass killing in Yemen

Trump praises Putin for expelling US diplomats, gets panned... by diplomat

Over 150 refugees 'thrown' into Yemen sea

Remembering: German nun Ruth Pfau in Pakistan

Texas Prisoners Face Deadly Heat and Contaminated Water

China in Africa: Old powers sidelined as Beijing follows economic ties with first military base

Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Video Casts Doubt on Officers

Macron's First Effort to Shake Up the Economy Is Catching On

French jobs market springs to life under Emmanuel Macron

Megachurch Pastor Says Trump Has God's Approval to Start Nuclear War

Swastika-branded clothing pulled after online backlash

Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama's War on Leaks (VIDEO)

Fearing Trump Censorship, Govt. Scientists Leak Alarming Climate Report

The United States and the Crucifixion of Yemen

Liberals Strike Back... Against Single Payer

Even More Evidence the US Is a Kleptocracy, Not a Meritocracy

U.S. to relax rules protecting sage grouse in favor of oil drillers

As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures

Charlottesville VA Backs "Reparations" Fund for Black Residents & Votes to Sell Robert E. Lee Statue (VIDEO)

Blackballing Kaepernick: Fear of the black athlete

Hope On This Hiroshima Day

As White House Ramps Up Attacks on Free Press, NRA Issues Warning to New York Times

Irish Retail Workers Strike for Secure Hours

Court Throws Out Blackwater Guards' Sentences for 2007 Baghdad Massacre

Norman Lear to Boycott Reception With the 'Archie Bunker' President

Syria's doll-makers: 'I protect my children's dreams'

"Cruel & Inhumane": Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Trump Push to Slash Legal Immigration (VIDEO)

Maduro inaugurates new Venezuela assembly

Florida Will Battle Coastal Pollution by Eliminating Old Septic Tanks

Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

Why Are "Activist Investors" Silent on Corporate Social Responsibility?

Responding to Dems' 2018 Campaign Plan, Groups Release Pro-Choice Platform

Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ's Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended

Asylum Seekers, Fleeing Trump's Hostility, Overwhelm Quebec's Refugee Resources

Is the UN sending the wrong people to keep the peace?

Why Kenya's presidential election on August 8 matters

Town evacuated after freight train derails, catches fire in Bedford County, Pennsylvania

‘We are ready': If US sanctions hurt European interests, EU can react ‘within days’ says EU leader

Land Taken From Freed Slave’s Descendants for Amazon Data Center?

Unpaid doctors and nurses fight largest cholera epidemic on record

Trump's Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are "Treasonous" (VIDEO)

'Historic day' as Jordanian parliament repeals rape law

The myth of American 'greatness'