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The stakes could hardly be higher, and campaigners on both sides are scrambling ahead of referendums in Kentucky, Montana, California, Vermont and Michigan. Can Kansas inspire other pro-choice wins?

Military mobilization has finally buried the “Putin social contract,” which assumed the political passivity of the people. How will people act when suddenly and unwillingly awakened to politics and civic activity?

The Onion has filed a brief in defense of parody in the Supreme Court. "Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government? This was a surprise to America's Finest News Source and an uncomfortable learning experience for its editorial team," the brief opens.

Our Homo sapiens ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of humans whose DNA lives on in our genes. Unearthing those extinct genomes has profound practical and philosophical implications.

Unions have narrowed class and ideological divides to make Generation Z America's most pro-union generation.

For all the news about the invasion of Ukraine, US observers scarcely know the price of war, but as San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil writes, that won’t last forever.

On September 27, a song by Iranian musician Shervin Hajipour ‘broke’ Persian social media. He is singing of the mass protests that began in Iran following the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini. It went viral -- viewed 40 million times within 48 hours.

The Academy formally apologized to the Native American activist and former actress in June after she was blacklisted for representing the actor at the 1973 Academy Awards.