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Coffeehouses connected goods and capital streams with seekers, facilitating the very aspect of slavery that amplified capitalism. Enslaved peoples’ bodies were not only bought and sold, but made into part of the processes of of credit and finance.

A union buster may be coming to your door.

As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the U.S.’s past with the cruel practice.

“This study confirms the growing body of peer-reviewed science indicating oil and gas extraction's methane pollution makes it as harmful to climate as coal burning's carbon dioxide pollution.”

Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border.

It is only global denuclearization that will eliminate the unimaginable threat of nuclear war.

Universal basic income is promoted by some on the left *and* the right. Should the left support it?

Popcorn is a source of antioxidants; in fact a serving of popcorn contains roughly double the amount of polyphenols as a serving of fruit (although fruit may have more numerous amounts of other vitamins and phytochemicals); but how you prepare popcorn can affect its healthful properties.

Despite the meeting being hailed as a success, Marco Rubio said no consensus exists as regards Washington’s policy of isolation and asphyxia towards Venezuela.

Before capital is an economic category, it’s a political one. If you have it, you’re obviously so...freer to do as you please; if you don’t, you’re dependent on those who do. Hiding in plain sight...is a contrary fact: without the collective work of those ostensibly powerless workers, nothing moves.