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Congresswoman Yvette Clarke says “this vicious attack on families across the United States cannot stand”. NEW YORK, United States, Thursday January 26, 2017 – A Caribbean-American legislator is vowing to…

By Michael Harriot One of my favorite true-life parables is the story of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. In the mid-1800s, Semmelweis worked in a maternity clinic where a large number…

  By Kali Holloway / AlterNet Photo Credit: Matt Gifford / Flickr   Millions of people across all seven continents marched in protest of Donald Trump — the least popular…

    By Juan Cole Trump’s cabinet has no Latinos, the first time that minority, which comprises 18 percent of Americans, is absent for twenty-five years. Trump famously accused Mexican-Americans…

  By Jared Bernstein The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures during a speech at a Chicago Freedom Movement rally at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 10, 1966. (Afro…

By Richard Eskow “I’m also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me.” Try not to think too much about the story that led to this comment from…

  By Louis Nevaer Cubans fear the “bromance” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could result in a U.S. invasion of the communist island. A day after American voters elected…