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Refrigeration is such a significant contributor to global warming and ozone depletion that Project Drawdown points to refrigerant management as the No. 1 thing we can do to mitigate climate change.

Despite Emilia Pérez’s mixed reviews and poor audience reactions, Hollywood handed the musical 13 Oscar nominations in the hopes of proving its progressive bona fides. Then old tweets from its star surfaced.

Poet Joanne Durham reflects on an uniquely American challenge of parenting.

Singer Chappell Roan has called on record labels to provide a “liveable wage” to rising stars after winning the best new artist award at the 67th Grammy Awards. She also called on labels to provide healthcare for those at the start of their career.

An outstanding contribution to the history of Black education that focuses on the career of Carter G. Woodson.

No Other Land, an award-winning documentary about the dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank, still hasn’t found a distributor in the US.

The truth is, greenhouse-gas emissions from food are sensitive to the exact mode of production, which vary country to country, region to region, and even farm to farm. And any analysis is only as good as the quality of the data that go into it.

Anishinaabe poet Kimberly Blaeser affirms her fealty to tradition as well as to the resistance to colonizers at the core of indigenous communities.

This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.

What Benedict Anderson’s classic account of nationalism’s origins misses about today’s world.