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The organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country often go unacknowledged.

Only an America that continues to bathe in the mythology of innocence, a God-given exceptionalism and virtue destined to rule the Earth could have produced a Trump victory.

Renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton on the Goldwater Rule: We have a duty to warn if someone may be dangerous to others.

Trump has taken the psychological underpinnings of pop culture and applied them to politics.

She served her country and worked hard to provide for her family. She would be lost without Medicaid.

Several experts on climate and resilience talk about the role of government. “Viewed correctly, sensible safeguards are part of freedom, not a retreat from it.”

A former Department of Labor official under President Obama reflects on the Trump administration's rollback of worker rights.

Young activists take a lesson from Standing Rock: Pipelines are a threat worth fighting against.

The "world's greatest military" is out everywhere and winning nowhere.

Despite clear health and environmental risks, the Department of the Interior has halted a mountaintop coal mining study.