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Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

We need to build a far-reaching global mass movement to defeat the authoritarian, neo-fascist threat to democratic rights and a better, more egalitarian future.

Cracks have started to appear in red states’ anti-union front.

The protests of 2020 revealed the extent to which our political movements are at a real crossroads. Do we continue to place the vast majority of our hopes on conventional politics? Or do we really begin to engage in the necessary project of rebuilding a radical, even revolutionary left?

When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.

The new deal at the Philadelphia Museum of Art union leaders told the Inquirer, included retroactive salary increases to July and 14 percent raises over the next three years. The minimum hourly wage for museum workers is set to increase from $15 to $16.75. Workers will also receive lowered costs for health care and four weeks of paid parental leave.

Thomas Downing’s Oyster House opened in 1825 in the heart of the financial district. Not only did Downing turn oysters into a delicacy, but he was also the first to dish out fine dining.

Recent calls to prohibit the study of race and racism in public schools would have dismayed Till-Mobley, who died in 2003. It’s more reason to remember her insistence that Till’s story be used to educate, even when some consider it controversial.

Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists

Leading unions will strike for higher salaries and against government requisitions of oil installations, in their biggest challenge yet to President Macron.