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Unionization at Volkswagen's Chattanoooga plant shows a "just transition" could be possible, even in the anti-union South. That's great news for climate politics.

Environmental Justice Wins (in 1997), School Integration Loses (1959), Wrist Slap for Torturers (2004), Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919), No Place to Be Somebody Opens (1969), National Conference on Lynching (1919), ‘We Don’t Want to Radiate!’ (1979)

Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak out’

Over 80 years after its discovery, LSD may finally have found a medical application. A new study shows that it is highly effective at treating generalised anxiety disorder for up to 12 weeks with just a single dose. And it is fast acting.

AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers continue to face the greatest risk of dying on the job.

Davis viewed his confrontation with HUAC and the University of Michigan as an opportunity. He willingly risked both his freedom and his career to expose and perhaps even put an end to the establishment’s willingness to quash left political dissent.

The rise of the baron illustrates the failures of our approach to food policy better than a dry description of policies ever could. For example, the story of the Grain Barons tells the history of the Farm Bill and how it has corrupted the food system

Netflix's Spanish-language adaptation of One Hundred Years Of Solitude premieres later this year

Scientists are making computer models to better understand how the mysterious insects emerge collectively after more than a decade underground.

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.