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A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.

Exposure to leaded petrol as a child has been linked to an average IQ drop of 2.6 points among US adults, increasing to 5.9 points among those born in the mid-to-late 1960s

ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ro Khanna, and other Democrats in Congress propose a windfall tax to change that.

Government investigators say lax regulations are increasing the risk of extreme weather-related chemical disasters.

The Pennsylvania-based candy brand has hired union-busting consultants as workers fight for better pay and conditions.

My overriding hope is that current talks may lead to peace, to an end of death and destruction, and to the repair and renewal of all efforts to build a world without exploitation, without aggrandizement, without aggression, without war.

Far too often, no-knock warrants and raids have severe and deadly consequences, resulting in property damage, trauma, and death.

Even when human solidarity in the West is justly expressed with Ukraine, we cannot overlook its racist context. Official empathy is nowhere to be found when violence is directed against non-Europeans, in general, towards Palestinians, in particular.

Voters want elected officials to challenge corporate greed to lower prices.

A propaganda campaign using Russian TicTok influencers features the themes of “Russian Lives Matter,” the Z Dance and Real Women glamorizes the invasion of Ukraine.