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There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Universe, but dark energy is the most confusing. Here’s why.

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

A Forgotten Chapter in the Working-Class Fight for Democratic Rights

But the Kurds have never stopped resisting.

Policymakers should reconsider how the tax code treats the most well-off. Here is a closer look.

We get a crash course in how the bounty-hunting system works, complete with the Bounty Hunters Guild taken extremely literally as an actual unionized workforce of bounty hunters. There are labor disputes over clients refusing to pay guild rates.

Arkansas teachers and students face a well-funded school privatization effort backed by major corporate entities with influence that stretches from the Governor’s office to the state Board of Education to the University of Arkansas.

President Donald Trump is rewarding senators who have his back on impeachment - and sending a message to those who don't to get on board. Richard Painter, who served as George Bush's top ethics lawyer, accused Trump of bribery.

"United Goal, One Voice" is aim of partnering agreement between Kenya's metal workers union and associations of artisans and other informal workers.

Maurice (Moe) Mitchell, the National Director of the Working Families Party (WFP), talks about their recent endorsement of Elizabeth Warren, what the WFP will being doing between now and election day, and the path toward structural change.