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Plants and animals came back much faster than thought, with plants spurring mammals to diversify, the team reports today in Science.

Moving some of the US troops stationed in Syria to Iraq while deploying an additional 1,800 troops to Saudi Arabia and continuing to participate in the brutal Saudi-led war in Yemen is hardly a strategy to “bring our great soldiers back home.”

While Lebanon has recently experienced similar massive “street explosions” against the ruling class (such as in 2015), the 2019 ‘October Revolution’ marks an important turning point in the history of contentious politics in the post-civil war era.

The contradictory character of Trump foreign policy has left the peace movement befuddled. Perhaps the task is to include in the project of building a progressive majority ideas about challenging the US as an imperial power.

The bodies of 39 migrants were found dead in a trailer in Britain. They had all suffocated. This is yet another chapter of the drama of migration and self-segregation into which Europe is retreating.

Talk About Direct Action Getting Results': Bankrupt Blackjewel Agrees to Pay Over $5 Million to Laid Off Coal Miners Who Blocked Train Tracks

Perhaps the most salient point about witch trials is gender. Witch trials weren’t just about baseless accusations. They were also about a justice system that escalated local grievances to capital offenses and targeted a subjugated group.

Study reveals rampant racism in decision-making software used by US hospitals — and highlights ways to correct it.

Economists greatly underestimate the price tag on harsher weather and higher seas. Why is that?

And the president is again trying to gaslight the public.