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Access Living’s Coleman says that real change in the police department will require a culture shift. People need to stop “looking at disability as an ‘other’ community, but as a part of our human nature.”

There is probably no greater illusion in the field of national security than the idea of credible missile defense.

While plant species around the world will have to cope with warming temperatures and a changing climate, coffee is especially vulnerable to these changes.

We have a finite amount of time left to coexist with much of the biosphere, glaciers, coral, and thousands of species of plants, animals, and insects. But, saying good-bye to them must also involve doing everything we can to save whatever is left.

The 2020 census is plagued by uncertainties. Here's how some places are preparing.

Should Bernie Sanders be the Left’s presidential candidate in 2020? Hamilton Nolan and Bhaskar Sunkara revive the great American tradition of arguing about Bernie online.

Ukraine’s far-right is like a hydra, with ugly heads that pop-up far too frequently. Just within the last few weeks, an American-born cabinet minister thanked a group of violent neo-Nazi “activists” for their services.

But the masses of red flowers for Karl Liebknecht and, even more for Rosa Luxemburg, was higher than I have ever seen them. Both were murdered one hundred years ago.

The reason, according to William Barr in his Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday, was his undying love of the Department of Justice itself. His history says otherwise.

A Climate Dividend, or People's Payout, is an increasingly popular idea. The left likes it because low-income households are better off. The Citizens’ Climate Lobby champions climate dividends: a bill to deliver it is being consider in the House.