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Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists

How do you solve a problem like SCOTUS?

Miners in Alabama went on strike in April 2021 after the company hit them with wage and benefit cuts. A year and a half later, with the company continuing to post record profits, the miners and their families are still on strike — and still refusing to back down.

Ukraine isn’t the only place on the planet where a nuclear conflagration could erupt in the near future. Sad to say, around the island of Taiwan — where U.S. and Chinese forces are engaging in ever more provocative military maneuvers — there is also an increasing risk that such moves by both sides could lead to nuclear escalation.

Maintenance workers voted against the tentative agreement reached last month and said without a fair contract, a work stoppage could begin as early at November 19.

It will compensate seniors for the bout of inflation. Workers deserve as much.

A new book argues that the Constitution is best understood as a document calling for the unashamed struggle for equality.

Selectively borrowing Indigenous practices cannot truly address the climate crisis or injustices to Indigenous peoples perpetrated by white settler colonialism.

Fortunately, there is another way―one that major thinkers and even, at times, national governments have promoted. And that is strengthened global governance.

While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes Native histories and Native people – an important addition to our ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be American.