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Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union.

Alternative “smart” packaging material using biodegradable corn protein, starch, naturally derived biopolymers and nature inspired antimicrobials keeps harmful bacteria and spoilage microorganisms off food and plastic pollution out of the environment

Rodney lays out an invaluable concept: that underdevelopment expresses a relationship of exploitation. It implies not lack of development but the existence and results of suppression, oppression and exploitation.

Pilar González Kelly is a sophomore studying public policy at Duke University and long-time reader of Portside. This op-ed is an original submission to Portside.

The coronavirus remains new enough and its long-term effects unpredictable enough that measuring the threat posed by an infection is a thorny problem. How people perceive risk is subjective.

Building on the concept of the "Long March Through the Institutions," Brazil's landless workers movement, continuing to organize after 40 years of struggle, offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.

The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results

What are some of the barriers to minority candidates running for/winning office?

The polling industry claims to offer live snapshots of what the public thinks. Yet the obsession with polls is reducing politics to market research.

Kansas Democrats are using ranked-choice voting for the 2020 primary election, hoping to increase voter participation and to create fairer voting systems.