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After decades of consolidation, just four firms now control at least 97 percent of the $68 billion frozen potato market. A new spate of antitrust lawsuits accuses them of brazen price-fixing.

Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now.

In October 1956 the ascending rock idol lent his considerable stardom to helping save lives by getting vaccinated against polio on the Ed Sullivan show. Today an anti-vax fanatic with a celebrity name is in line to be in charge of public health.

Journalist Laura Carlsen discusses how Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will navigate a series of domestic challenges and a changing U.S.-Mexico relationship.

Israeli leftists have been more divided and marginalized than ever since the October 7 assault, with joint Palestinian-Jewish struggle at a breaking point. Yet their sights remain set on long-term political change.

We are the wealthiest nation on Earth. There is no rational reason as to why we are not the healthiest nation on Earth

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First, Elon Musk helped buy the U.S. presidential elections. Now, he is interfering in Germany's elections, by supporting the ultra-rightist party AfD, Alternative for Germany; in German: Alternative für Deutschland. Germany and Europe is protesting.

There's the bad news – apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority–and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. Recent polls show that's not the whole story.