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The Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide. The effects, experts say, could reverberate for years.

At the Jefferson School students were expected to study Marxism and to take that education into the street in mass actions including protests, and political organizing. This mission resonated with Du Bois’ goal to create inter-racial solidarity.

Decolonization and the pursuit of a more egalitarian international order.

Is eight hours really the ultimate truth? I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.

By deporting the whistleblower and witness to the New Orleans hotel collapse, the Trump administration runs roughshod over common sense.

After a flop film, Philip Pullman’s trilogy of novels have now been made into a BBC/HBO TV series – and its fairytale story could not be more relevant to 2019, writes David Jesudason.

Instacart is not a marvel of technological innovation. It is a marvel of exploitation. You don’t need an advanced mathematics degree to know the score.

Mueller came as close as possible saying that he would have indicted Trump for obstruction of justice, if Justice Department policy allowed him to do so. "If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.

States are clamoring to pass unconstitutional pre-viability abortion bans in the hopes that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will kill Roe v. Wade. Since this was written new bills have passed in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri and Louisiana.

Democracy campaigners have called a general strike against the counter-revolutionary Supreme Military Council. The revolutionary transformation in Sudan faces a critical test over the coming weeks.