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Romance novels are misunderstood. So is the working class.

Founded before Roe v. Wade, the Vermont Women’s Health Center helped make abortion safe and accepted, showing that women’s liberation is connected to freedom for all.

The world's ruling elites have chosen to place their geopolitical rivalries above all other critical concerns, including planetary salvation.

Fifty years out, we can look back and say with certainty that the U.S. landscape on gender equity would look very different today without Title IX. And the legislation continues to play an important role in shaping the future.

In April, 8.3% of disabled Americans were unemployed, compared with 3.1% of those without a disability.

The Golden State is set to spend its capital gains haul on massive public investments in climate.

There are two lessons one can learn from the Sri Lankan experience. The first is that a welfare state is totally incompatible with a neo-liberal regime. The second is that every country is vulnerable to a “contingency crisis” under neo-liberalism.

“Is It Cake?” can be interpreted as deeply tied to a cultural moment in which deception – and learning how to recognize it – has become a part of everyday life.

A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.

In Texas, a teacher told her students she was required by law to provide them with multiple perspectives on the racist conspiracy theory that allegedly motivated the deadly attack in Buffalo.