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The tragic collapse of the Al-Saada building stresses the need to evacuate structures strategically damaged by Israel’s bombardment.

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In ‘The Mayor,’ Brian Alexander chronicles a Pennsylvania mayor’s effort to restore value to public service.

The book is rich with human close-ups that bring to life subjects like the threat of privatization of a regional Pennsylvania water utility.
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We need a coherent system for governing technologies that can quickly cross jurisdictional lines.
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From federal cannibalization to a worsening teacher vacancy problem, U.S. public schools remain a political target.

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The Palestine Pioneers Channel is turning a Khan Yunis basement into a global studio for young voices.

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The Port of Elizabeth Movement has successfully disrupted weapons shipping, continuing the ripple effect of global arms embargo campaigns.

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Accounts of detention, disputed voter-roll deletions, and restrictions on public assembly raise questions about civil rights in the world’s largest democracy.

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My latest in @theprogressive: A Joyous Election in Michigan https://t.co/jGcvGBIlvT

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On election night, Michigan decisively sent its first Muslim Senator to Washington, D.C.—no small feat amid open and rampant Islamophobia in the Trump Administration and around the country.

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New federal civil rights data show persistent racial disparities in America’s teacher workforce.
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"For nearly two decades after her death, I never fully processed the grief of losing my sister. Then, a prison introduced me to the wind phone."

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Even though driverless technology may indeed be a runaway locomotive that’s impossible to stop, it’s worth the effort to try anyway.
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There’s a gap between hospital policies that promote lunch breaks as employee self-care and the conditions that prevent us from taking them.
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Two cities in Montana temporarily halted grants that would locally expand federal immigration enforcement.

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Historically hostile to its own public schools, the state legislature has issued a ballot measure that could threaten their existence.

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Political conversations about transgender people affect health care, schools, and ordinary opportunities to participate in public life.
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The goal is to protect democracy and hold those in power accountable.
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Instead of leaning into the progressivism gaining traction across the country, the Democratic establishment is choosing to attack the left.
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In Oregon, incarcerated residents are suing to stop the use of solitary confinement.

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Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘The Rush’ expertly reflects on a period of U.S. history increasingly resonant in a new Gilded Age.
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