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Scared of Coronavirus? Get Your Flu Shot

The flu kills far more people than coronavirus. The panic isn’t just irrational — it’s taking on a darker edge.

Moderates consistently warn that progressive ideas can’t win “the middle.” But just look at the polls.

Americans were taught to associate “socialism” with dictatorship and “capitalism” with democracy. Are those days over?

Well, that’s one version of party unity.

As a Sister of the Church, I believe Americans have a moral obligation to learn more about why Central Americans are forced to seek refuge here.

Blowing up mountains, bulldozing sacred sites, guzzling groundwater — the wall is turning border ecosystems into a grim dystopia.

Credit card companies fleece retailers to give high-end spenders cash back — a system the rest of us end up subsidizing.

If they can “give back” so much, it’s probably because they’ve been taking too much.

Trump is counting on the working class he’s betraying most aggressively. Can the left get out of suburbia and back to its roots?

The Senate failed to do their job — but ordinary citizens can’t fail to do ours.