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Poverty is deepening, the standard of living is declining in the US, wages remain stagnant and inequality is worsening. Meanwhile the national unemployment rate has hit historically low levels. What explains this anomalous state of the US economy?

Institutional expressions of racism in the US food system and ways universities can contribute to challenging racism.

The Military-Industrial Complex Strikes (Out) Again

By paying more attention to behaviors, and not just to the activity of neurons, two researchers critical of most neuroscience learned how brains make sense of spoken language.

Despite the desperate efforts of the Trump Administration to rescue the nuclear industry, the demand for atomic energy is in irreversible decline. But before the country can abandon its nuclear plants, there's six decades of waste to deal with.

In 2006, he found himself in a country falling into war—an experience that forever altered how he would understand people, culture, history, and conflict.

The dissenting employees asked Google to swear off all military work. Pichai’s response? We hear you, but you can trust us to do this responsibly.

This week I am going to talk about trade unions and automation, and why we should put the labour movements money into shaping automation for our use.

A Washington DC multimedia extravaganza celebrated the concept of a Dictionary of Marx, highlighting twelve words central to Marx’s lexicon and subsequent movements that look to Marx

If Democrats really want to develop an economic message that is supposed to help all people, especially the most vulnerable in America, they need to start with the stark inequalities that are right in front of their noses.