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Coming soon to a screen near you – “Trump’s Life Matters!”

Homelessness has doubled in the past four years, yet some observers still parrot top-down excuses for this increase.

Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.

Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry (1960), A Classic Ragtime Spiritual (1925)

Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical edge that hollered for the country to make its bounty available to rich and poor alike.

The tale of “jobs versus the environment” does not capture the full story.

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

The increasing number of murdered women, armed civilians, construction of ever larger prisons and violence against animals are manifestations of "war mentality". Violence we encounter every day is closely linked to wars we think are far away.

DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.

The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate in the United States.