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The Department of Justice announced Wednesday it will be undertaking two important reviews: one related to the Memphis Police Department (MPD) and one that will examine the use of specialized units within law enforcement.

The players who make America’s pastime possible have had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.

Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the US and Europe, Russia and China.

More than 1.2 million protesters marched in France Tuesday as rail workers and refinery staff began rolling strikes and trade unions stepped up their campaign to try to stop Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age to 64.

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‘Non Una di Meno talks about striking from consumption, from housework, or even dressing a certain way when it is not really possible to refrain from work. And one can also strike from gender as such.'

An interview with musician and activist Holly Near. The arc of her professional life has spanned more than five decades in a most unique fashion, singing for a more peaceful, equitable, just, and feminist world.

How a Chicago collective approaches a worker-owned farm through an intersectional and holistic lens that understands that our community’s issues can be addressed in part by sustainable farming and food justice educational programs.

Author and curator Nick Pyenson describes the similarities and differences between humans and our distant mammalian relatives.

In subtle and not so subtle ways, the White House waged a quiet campaign to ensure that Mr. Trump had a second opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court Justice in his first 18 months in office.