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Marketing departments inject Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) with stories ranging from the banal (a cereal box cartoon character) and aspirational (health promises), to the manipulative such as ads picturing fast food eating as the center of family life

Isaac Asimov was a science fiction giant. But the Apple TV version of Foundation addresses one place the books fell short. Foundation is no longer just a boy’s club.

Arkansas poet Gerald Sloan reminds us that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was no “act” but often lost to history and found again.

These books offer two approaches to the life and work of Wheatley, who is a cornerstone figure of the U.S. and African American literary traditions.

"She was flawless, something had to be wrong. I wanted to heal her, but I also needed her sick. I wanted to become Barbie, and I wanted to destroy her. I wanted her perfection, but I also wanted to punish her for being more perfect than I’d ever be."

Harvard experts say most recommendations are well-supported, but guidance on total fat intake omits decades of evidence

The effort by Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation production staff filing to unionize was sparked by Warner Bros. recent reorganization

Mississippi poet Philip C. Kolin reminds us of the next imminent global disaster—bad water—and in some places it’s already here.

George W. Crockett was a pioneering labor lawyer, defender of Communists and other left wingers, a progressive judge, and a member of Congress from Detroit. Reviewer Gespass reviews a new biography of this towering figure.

Documentary filmmakers sensitive to the unions aren’t quite sure how to navigate the delicate subject of continuing to work without dissing the unions in the process. “There’s no clear message for how the nonfiction space can be supportive."