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Claudia Sheinbaum’s resounding victory in Mexico’s presidential election on June 2nd, 2024, has been welcomed by two of the country’s main energy unions, UNTyPP and SME.

UMass’ Investment Portfolio: As UMass backs out of a commitment to consider divestment, a Shoestring investigation reveals its endowment has millions indirectly invested in defense contractors and other entities targeted by student activists.

Organizers and researchers Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry examine how movements can build power by working within, without, and against philanthropy

October 7 collapsed Israel’s decades-old ‘separation policy' toward Gaza. Gantz and Gallant know it; Netanyahu and the far right still won’t admit it.

Instructing our cells to make specific proteins could control influenza, autoimmune diseases, even cancer

As economic royalists ally with Trump, we have already seen an example of a rhetorical counter that tells it like it is.

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A ceremony at an old food market in Amsterdam prompts reflections on tragedy, indifference and survival. How could so many Israelis feel indifferent to such grief and afflictions — that recalled how so many Germans had turned a blind eye to the Nazis

The focus on Columbia University has overshadowed the extent of protests—and police brutality—at public schools. Those charged with occupying a Columbia building are facing misdemeanors, while those charged with occupying CCNY buildings face felonies