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There’s so much toxic wastewater produced from fracking oil and gas in the U.S. that it’s difficult to envision just how much water comes from the wells. Expressed in terms of barrels or swimming pools, the numbers still grow dizzyingly high.

With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.

Over the course of at least three secret meetings that happen abroad, an American diplomat established a back channel with these dissident officers.

An impeccably researched account of how Blacks and Latinos are denied the right to vote.

When this tracker was launched, we had 96 entries, almost two attempts to silence science each week during the 14 months after President Trump was elected. Since then, the Trump administration’s attacks on science have accelerated.

Some 425 Chicago public school students died between the 2013-14 and 2016-17 school years. One in four attended an alternative high school, though these schools accounted for only around 2 percent of the district’s enrollment.

When the Spanish flu hit the Swedish city of Östersund in 1918, the rampant social inequality ensured its devastating impact. But the legacy of the “capital of the Spanish flu” is a city and country better equipped to deal with current challenges.

This chart shows how far behind America is in paid time off compared to the rest of the world

What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States

This was the first incarnation of the Pledge of Allegiance, composed by Bellamy, though conspicuously missing two prominent elements, namely, any mention of the United States or of God.