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The historic vote comes amid growing discontent among employees at technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who have started to organize.

Replacing grass with even a few plants native to your region can save insects and the ecosystems that depend on them.

Accountability is important. But tests that tie school funding to student performance only make things worse.

Protests have brought rail travel in Canada to a standstill and introduced the fight against Coastal GasLink to the broader public.

The presidential candidate is a mirror image of Trump.

Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho on his film Parasite: " I tried to express a sentiment specific to Korean culture, [but] all the responses from different audiences were pretty much the same. Essentially, we all live in the same country, called Capitalism."

Corruption on top, rebellion on the bottom, and Bernie on the ballot

Ending Poverty vs. Paul Ryan's Budget; Military Spending; Immigrant Workers; CIA Detentions, Guantanamo and now Spying on Congress; Beyond Capitalism; GM Recall; Tony Benn; Social Media and Drones...

Whatever the reasons, several social scientists say deteriorating conditions for retirees and older Americans in general - intensifying fear about retirement security, age discrimination, increasing poverty among the elderly and new threats to cut programs for seniors - could be the impetus for what some are calling a "silver revolution."