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She at first expected her story to be kept confidential, but changed her mind after it leaked. She now says she is willing to testify about her experience.

U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.

“These people are not accessories to the crime, they are the media. This is a constitutionally protected activity.”

Elon Musk is exhibit A in building the case that billionaires should be abolished.

To win on gun violence and abortion, activists must engage in actions of escalation that match the public’s distress.

Senate Democrats, gun safety groups investigate apparent NRA campaign to undo Citigroup’s gun-sales rules.

Donald Trump’s lack of curiosity or basic knowledge of the world becomes most dangerous, exacerbating tensions in faraway places that he simply doesn’t understand and views through a prism created by right wing hacks (and his own long held racist views).

As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.

New methodologies are needed that inculcate true individuality and creative independent thinking. At the heart of the required changes – which need to be both gradual and radical – must be education – formal and non-formal.

Aretha Franklin has been celebrated as one of the greatest American singers of any genre, who helped give birth to soul and redefined the American musical tradition.