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The United States of Amnesia

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.

The pandemic struggles of many Asian Americans have been grossly overlooked.

Opponents of critical race theory don’t want us to ask what we can learn from the past. But that’s the whole point of studying history.

Many essential workers still aren’t vaccinated. It’s not because they don’t want to be — it’s because they can’t get time off work.

Voters in several red states have decided overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana, but their leaders keep undermining them.

My Jewish upbringing taught me to stand with the persecuted and the vulnerable. Today, that means the Palestinians.

We can’t say we support justice and human rights in this country while supporting violence and expulsion abroad.

U.S. support for Israel poses a challenge the Biden administration’s promise to center human rights in foreign policy.

Republicans are using a telling choice of words to explain their new voter suppression laws.