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How is a show about banking more fun than anything else.

As wars go on, writes the Ukrainian-American poet Oksana Maksymchuk, civilians find moments of joy, but then….

A journalist travels across the US to unravel the secrets surrounding the life and death of his Ethiopian immigrant father.

Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.

Many farmers are offering alternate direct-to-consumer models for purchasing their produce, adjacent to a CSA but with more flexibility.

Conservatives are capitalizing on the abandoned Khelif-Carini fight to levy anti-trans attacks.

For the poet Beau Beausoleil, the war in Gaza drags on, no end in sight and distance offers no clear refuge.

Fred C. Trump III shares story of presidential nominee using N-word and describes Trump’s attitude on race

The controversy over Sabra, a new movie character, explained.

Rise in food prices can be traced to profiteering by large international agribusinesses and financial speculation in food commodity futures. Countries need domestic food sovereignty, regional arrangements to ensure supply, and volatility controls.