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As millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19, anthropologists are investigating the surprising significance of this underrated sense.

Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.

Concerns that "other" groups were demographically outpacing white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant women spurred efforts to limit the bodily autonomy of white women and limit access to contraception in order to force them to have children.

For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.

War, Inflation, Geopolitical Rivalry, and Soaring World Temperatures

Canada’s Starbucks organizing wave is moving eastward from British Columbia, with a store in Alberta going union earlier this month. Poetically, the Starbucks union win is on anti-labor Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s home turf.

The new FX series "The Bear" fictionalizes trying to turn around a failing Chicago sandwich shop, and how chef egos (always) come into play

William Monroe Trotter rejected the view that racial equality could come in stages.

Physics is what powers the beautiful circus machine, even if the audience is completely oblivious.

What artists can do is bring stories to the table that are unshakably true—the sort of stories that, once you’ve heard them, won’t let you return to what you thought before.