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In private, many physicists admit they do not believe the particles they are paid to search for exist – they do it because their colleagues are doing it

Jeff was a glorious model of a human being. Not a man without flaws, but a man with great passion, intelligence, determination, caring, humility, generosity, and an unwavering drive toward justice.

"Punitive systems only create more cycles of trauma and violence.”

New poverty data reveals the effectiveness of pandemic aid programs that are now expired. For poor Americans, building on that success is a matter of life and death.

Forty-two years ago, North Carolina discovered that a company in the Northeast had dumped tons of polychlorinated biphenyls — PCBs, very cancer-causing carcinogenic substance — along the highways of North Carolina.

A review of "Work, Work, Work" by Michael Yates

The Supreme Court majority aren’t done undermining American democracy.

A let-the-rich-be government has opened the doors to the smiling heirs of Italy’s neofascist factions.

New research reveals that cancer is rife with bacteria and fungi — a rich ecosystem that scientists say offers new possibilities for the detection and even the treatment of cancer

Hurricane Ian isn’t a once-in-500-years flooding event, it is the New Normal. And Gov. DeSantis' policies in Florida are making it worse.