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Two Weeks Before Midterms, Trump Attacks Democracy With 'One of the Most Naked Attempts to Promote Voter Suppression' in Modern Times

NYT Report Details 'Horrifying,' 'Appalling,' and 'Completely Legal' Pregnancy Discrimination in US

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"When will employers start treating maternity care as a priority instead of a problem?"

'War on Drugs' Terrible at Eradicating Drugs; Great at Upending Societies

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The report—titled "Taking stock: A decade of drug policy"—evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the United Nations, peer-reviewed academic research, and a collection of grey literature from civil society. (Credit: Report cover / LSE)

International group calls for a major rethink of global policy on narcotics and...

'Insulting, Inhumane, and Unacceptable': LGBTQ Rights Advocates Blast Trump's Latest Attack on Trans Americans

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"The cruelty and bigotry of this administration truly has no limit."

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'Disgraceful and Enraging': Supreme Court Halts Youth Climate Case After Last-Ditch Trump Effort to Kill Suit

'We Call BS': As Saudi Arabia Claims Khashoggi Killed in 'Fistfight,' Trump White House Issues 'Laughably Weak' Response

'We're Voting Them Out!': Watch a Horde of Hoosiers March With Bernie Sanders to Early-Voting Site in Indiana

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With GOP Candidate Also Overseeing Georgia Elections, 107,000 Voters Purged in Yet Another Suppression Effort

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As World Mourns Khashoggi, Trump Declares 'Open Season on All Journalists'

LGBTQ Community and Dissidents Main Targets as Israel Exports High-Tech Spying Tools to Despots Worldwide

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PEN Sues: It Is Up to Those of Us Who Depend Upon A Free Press To Rise In Defense Of It

Conceding Trump's 1st Amendment right to abuse, demean or even noxiously slam the media as "enemies of the people" but fiercely rejecting his right to use the power of government to "punish and stifle" it, PEN America, representing thousands of writers, is suing him in federal court. The suit seeks to stop any move to "retaliate or threaten reprisals" against news coverage he dislikes - the sort of thing wannabe dictator Trump has repeatedly engaged in, and that the courts have found illegal.