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Neandertals at a site in Croatia exhibited a range of behaviors traditionally assumed to be unique to modern humans, and they developed these behaviors independently, tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived in this region.

"Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today". A look back at the late 1940s and its lost opportunities ought to give us pause as we consider our situation today.

While Germans may not be much more interested in Ukraine than Americans, their grandparents told them enough about that last big war to keep a majority from wanting to risk another one.

Rest in power, Curtis Muhammad!

Curtis's beliefs in a cooperative society and bottom up organizing learned from Moses and Ella Baker and a life-time of organizing and struggle, have been embraced by many contemporary movements for social justice today.

Food was a weapon of control by slaveholders, most often used as a mechanism for domination and exploitation. The story of African American food has also been a story about self-determination and ownership.

Why socialists should read Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

It’s been almost a decade since the Great Recession, and America has witnessed a record 82 months of month-on-month jobs growth. The national unemployment rate now stands at a 4.3%, a 16-year low. But month after month, it is the low-wage sectors – fast food, retail, healthcare – that have added new jobs. Wage growth has barely kept pace with inflation. The national minimum wage ($7.25) was last raised in 2009.

In the new age of domestic terrorism, the right to display arms must be controlled.

NAFTA is back in the news this month: On August 16, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met with his counterparts from Canada and Mexico, the other two NAFTA nations, to open talks on renegotiating the pact.