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A biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

As the court concludes another term that upended lives, conservative justices are attracting criticism for their rulings and their behavior away from the bench

Staggered 18-year terms would bring regular turnover to the bench. The result would be a Court that better reflects prevailing public values.

California’s tech industry cannot escape its original sins.

The dystopian drama spins class warfare into gold.

Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. It’s now making a disturbing comeback: lawmakers across the US are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that prohibit employing children.

Affirmative action is now a policy of the past. Something far more powerful than affirmative action is still needed. The vision of Randolph, Rustin and King offers a clue towards a solutions.

The increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria poses a major healthcare threat. In the face of an almost complete absence of new antimicrobial drugs in development, antibiotic resistance (ABR) has become one of the main public health problems of our time.

World Beyond War has created a set of online interactive maps to help us all see where and how war and preparations for war exist in the world today.

Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.