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The ongoing struggle of farmers in India is the most significant mass mobilization in decades and represents the biggest challenge to the government of Narendra Modi since it first came to power in 2014.

Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice.

“Even when the events depicted are far away, journalists and forensic analysts, deeply immersed in a flood of explicit, violent, and disturbing photos and video, may feel that it is seeping into their own personal headspace...”

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

Tennessee, Montana and Oklahoma are the latest states to pass anti-protest laws. Other bills in Iowa, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have progressed in the last two months.

At UAW Local 2110, Maida Rosenstein has quietly organized the most prestigious group of cultural institutions on the East Coast.

The ongoing climate crisis is not going to spare Siberia. Temperatures topped 118 degrees 118 degrees Fahrenheit, last week in one area.

The Fourth Circuit appeals court finds that Republicans “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision.”

Driver-owned apps could end Uber’s exploitative reign over the ride-share market.

From Halt and Catch Fire to The Americans, some of "the best television of the moment is mining the fairly recent past in a meaningful way." Critic Meghan Lewit on what nostalgia for the 1980s and '90s might tell us about who we are now.