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No country in the world has seen life expectancy plummet during the pandemic as sharply as the US. The gap between the United States and its peer income countries is now over five years, which is an incredible gap.

Throughout U.S. history, class has been bound up with other forms of oppression—so the disenfranchisement of Black men after Reconstruction decisively shifted class relations.

From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.

Squeals of “socialism!” aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly. This time it’s not just about saving our banks or fighting a war: this time, it’s about saving the world…

Baristas from Starbucks locations around Boston in Coolidge Corner and Allston erupted in cheers as election results were announced by the National Labor Relation Board : 14-0 in Brookline and 16-0 in Allston.

Child care and elder care investments provide U.S. families more options and better lives. The added effect of boosting expectations of labor supply growth means that now would be a great time to undertake them to fight inflation.

Washington appears to be absent from the process, seemingly holding out for a preferred outcome while the violence rages.

Analysts say developments offer glimmer of hope for country devastated by seven years of war.

In the two years since the court’s ruling in a key case about Native American rights, the state of Oklahoma has requested the Supreme Court revisit the case more than 40 times.

The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.