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"Joker" is bold reinvention of 'superhero cinema' and about the dehumanizing effect of a capitalistic system that greases the economic ladder, blurring the line between private wealth and personal worth until life itself loses its absolute value.

Organizers want to see the company reduce its carbon footprint, cancel contracts with fossil fuel companies, and stop lobbying for politicians who deny climate change.

The words, stitched in black, glare out from the center of a handkerchief, decorated with a motif of pink roses: “Oh, my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked.”

...more than four years have passed since the police shot Amílcar Pérez-López a few blocks from my house in San Francisco’s Mission District. He was an immigrant, 20 years old, and his remittances were the sole support for his mother and siblings...

Regardless of the name, the reality is that people spend nearly 24 hours locked in their cell each day with little to no human contact.

Having given his first political speech when not yet a teenager, Leon at 97 worked to pass on the wisdom gained from decades of organizing and deep thought to a new generation.

ICE says immigrant detainees are only obligated to make their beds and avoid clutter. But a for-profit prison company is accused of forcing them to do much more – and for no wages.

Geologists have reconstructed a quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a vanished landmass now submerged largely below southern Europe.

The Pentagon is using a moral panic over “fake news” to gain influence over the domestic news landscape