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Crickets and other insects are a vastly more sustainable form of protein than livestock as well as an ideal protein source for urban homesteaders.

Unlike the most recent Roseanne, which was a largely political series that frequently tried to bill itself as something other than that, Murphy Brown declares its intentions to challenge the current Republican Establishment.

“what’s so neo/about neo-nazis,” asks the poet Deborah Landau. And maybe it’s time to do something!

Masterpiece or not, William S. Burroughs' "The Revised Boy Scout Manual": An Electronic Revolution fills a puzzling lacuna in the Beat author's bibliography, and offers an foretaste of the viperous Age of Trump.

A new biography of the pioneering African American dramatist and intellectual.

Agroecology isn’t rocket science. It simply takes full advantage of nature’s assets, drawn from the farm itself and surrounding ecosystems, to grow food

Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs teamed up with lifelong friend Rafael Casal for a rhythmic, funny, earnest take on their native Oakland.

Rather than focusing on violence by white citizens, this time around one of the killers is a black woman, whose rage is just as lethal as her white counterparts' — and it's aimed directly at everything they represent.

At a time when our Bill of Rights is endangered, Los Angeles poet Clint Margrave offers some wisdom on the matter of free speech.

A study of poverty and drug addiction in the slums outside Madrid reveals the callous and destructive nature of the neoliberal city.