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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

I grew up going to a Korean church in Germany, learning all about kindness, sharing, and helping each other in a wonderfully warm, communal, and nourishing space. That really had a positive impact on me (in addition to my socialist parents!).

Is the two-state solution for Israel-Palestine still viable? Perhaps it is time to admit, in the spirit of Voltaire, that the two-state solution was never about two states, nor was it a solution, nor could it ever be viable.