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China's Chang'e 4 mission to the moon has something else up its sleeve

Once one of the biggest urban enclaves of African-Americans, peaking at 1.2 million in the 80s, Chicago’s black population is projected to drop to 665,000 by 2030, according to the Urban Institute.

Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice

Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war

Unlike income inequality, wealth inequality along racial lines in the US has received relatively little attention. New evidence on the changing landscape of relative wealth among whites, blacks, and Hispanics between 1983 and 2016.

A new documentary stops just short of examining how a system of oppression contributed to the young woman’s apparent suicide.

For the past decade, mental health clinicians in California have been leading an offensive campaign to increase patients’ access to timely care.

Police departments have been sending their leaders to Israel to learn about the country's counterterrorism strategies since the 1990s. But growing opposition is pushing some to rethink these exchange programs.

Under capitalism, housing provision is based on what will make developers, lenders, and landlords rich — not what average people need to survive. That’s why we’ll never get decent, affordable housing for everyone under the free market.

In November, workers staged a walkout against sexual harassment in another industry rife with it. In a watershed moment for tech, more than 20,000 Google employees worldwide—over 20 percent of the company’s total workforce—walked off the job.