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Difficult as the road to forcing the US out of Vietnam was, the path to winning Palestinian self-determination and equal rights for all in Israel-Palestine appears even more challenging.

The energetic cost of a human pregnancy is about 50,000 dietary calories — far higher than previously believed, a new study found.

Many policies championed by progressive groups are not only popular with the Democratic base, but also among Independents and swing state voters. Policies that expand access to child care and elder care are supported by a majority of Republicans.

Featured insurrectionists this week: Samuel Alito ... Matt Gaetz ... Greg Abbott.

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Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996. Israel was a war machine on its own, searching for arms markets and anxious for allies.

Trump and his allies are planning to “deconstruct” the administrative state by stripping its power and forcing out tens of thousands of workers. That will put all of our lives at risk.

My most important training came outside the classroom, as a student activist. As I look at the surge of student organizing aimed at stopping the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, participation in such movements can have a long-term impact...

“I can no longer in good conscience represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” Greenberg Call, 27, wrote in her resignation letter. She attended Jewish day school....