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The extraordinary decision of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to deny tenure to one of the most recognized journalists of her generation has a chilling effect on untenured junior scholars and is an attack on freedom of the press

Brazil’s leftist former leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leaves no doubt he is planning a finale to a dramatic political career

A new first-of-its-kind study of DNA recovered from preserved human feces suggests that over the past thousand years the human gut has experienced an “extinction event,” losing dozens of species and becoming significantly less diverse.

The labor movement will not survive at all, let alone build power, without a serious racial analysis and making racial justice key to their core mission.

Costa Rica poet Simmons protests the legacy of “colonization” that confuses crime and justice.

Israel has reached apartheid, the antithesis of Judaism’s long tradition of social justice.

The latest Palestinian uprising firmly rejects the conquest and division of our people legally and geographically, into separate, besieged, apartheid parcels of land similar to the Bantustans of Apartheid South Africa.

"The Pentagon and the military industrial complex have been plagued by a massive amount of waste, fraud, and financial mismanagement for decades," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "That is absolutely unacceptable."

U.S. representatives have introduced two bills that would finally end Puerto Rico’s subordinate Commonwealth status. But continued colonial rule may be the only option Congress seriously considers.

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