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For more than nine thousand years, figs have been a keystone species, a critical component of the food web. Twelve hundred different kinds of animals depend on them.

The Roy siblings are deeply haunted by their upbringing. Succession keeps finding ways to show that.

The poet Andrew Hemmert finds himself “stationary and in a state of undress/ like a fountain statue” caught in a mess of environmental distress. How can a person move through this muddled world?

New York Times Pulitzer writer Isabel Wilkerson was widely applauded for two books on caste, using racial discrimination analysis that flourished in 1940s academia. But does her U.S. model explain other forms of discrimination internationally?

Acclaimed novelist Whitehead offers a crime novel set in 1960s Harlem.

In a video on Facebook, actor Alec Baldwin encouraged Hollywood workers to fight bad labor conditions. A commenter quickly accused his own production.

FDA guidance for specific sodium reduction goals for the food industry is groundbreaking.

Dave Chappelle’s trans friend knew how to take a joke. So what?

“I’ve been appalled but not surprised,” writes poet Dave Bonta, criticizing “the slanted coverage of the U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan” by media war hawks.

The book under review, written from a labor organizer's informed perspective, is seen by the book reviewer—himself a longtime labor militant-- as an essential resource for workers navigating their retirement and pension options.