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The GOP is not shy about enriching themselves at public expense in their budget and tax plans. But if they're not shy about looting public coffers, we won't be shy in opposing them, either.

Bernie Sanders has offered first steps towards a new foreign policy that upends the military-dominated definition of national security and elevates the threats posed by climate change. But the debate over how to achieve this has just begun.

The myth that Indians don't pay taxes is widespread and won't fade away. In fact, the Senate's push to restructure the federal tax system, destroying entitlement programs in the process, profoundly affects Indian Country.

In Puerto Rico, we may be seeing a prequel of what a post-climate change dystopian world may look like. That's why, after mitigating the damage, we must fight climate change as an existential threat to civilization.

Germany's recent elections affirm an alarming rise of the far right in Europe. But a deeper global phenomenon is at work, with implications for the American future. If political centrism is collapsing, what - and who - will replace it?

Past attempts to keep black students in the schools "where they belong" have morphed in southern cities like Little Rock and Jackson into present-day efforts to "reform" schools along exclusionary lines conceived by white elites.