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DNA fragments from thousands of years ago are providing insights into multiple sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia and other illnesses.

The 2018 Farm Bill okayed the production of hemp, removed it from the DEA's list of Controlled Substances and changed the marijuana landscape — that doesn’t erase criminalization’s disastrous impact on the working class.

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.

"We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collins said.” We have to be given something to lift us over that and through that.”

Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

Following 737 crashes, the GOP presidential hopeful helped crush a proposal to force more disclosure of Boeing’s spending to influence safety regulators.

Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.

In the Austrian capital, renters pay a third of what their counterparts do in London, Paris or Dublin. How is it possible?

Israeli human rights attorney Michael Sfard outlines what could play out as the world’s top court decides if and how to intervene in Israel’s war on Gaza.

There’s not going to be a post-Trump religious right — at least, not anytime soon. Evangelical leaders who started with Trump on a transactional basis, then grew giddy with their proximity to power, have now seen MAGA devour their movement whole.