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Computer modelling showed intensification of US-bound Pacific storms, driven by fine aerosols from coal power plants and traffic.

Rights for Mother Earth, not Corporations

When it comes to the environment, organized labor has two hearts beating within a single breast.

Kitimat, B.C., votes 'no' to Northern Gateway in non-binding plebiscite on $6.5B twin pipeline project.

Some argue that the broadband market already has been carved up into a cartel, so blocking the acquisition would do little to bring down prices. Washington should examine a larger question beyond whether the deal is good or bad for consumers: Is it good for our democracy? We haven’t needed to ask this question for more than a century because America hasn’t experienced the present concentration of economic wealth and power in more than a century.

There’s a significant labor economics literature that argues that job-to-job transitions are a major driver of wage growth for workers. If the number of people moving directly from one job to another is in decline, that’s a bad sign for wage growth, as well as inflation and monetary policy. This appears to be undertheorized and not discussed enough in academic or policy discussions.

Dorji Khatri, Sherpa union leader, among those killed in Everest Avalanche. Sherpa guide anger over working conditions continues to rise.

Wrongly convicted of murder by an all-white, famous ex-boxer became advocate for other prisoners.

Even without tobacco, the poorly regulated devices may pose unique dangers

Most people know Charlie Chaplin, whose 125th birthday was April 16, as a giant figure in the history of film. Chaplin's films were as funny as they were deeply revelatory of the human condition. His raucous cinematic assault on fascism, discussed here, helps enrich our understanding about what made this clown one of our most sublime and important artists.