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Jaz Brisack became a union organizer and barista for the same reasons that talented young people have long chosen their career paths: a mix of idealism and ambition.

Weaving together new research and rich primary sources, the Plant Humanities Initiative recounts stories of global foods, such as peanuts, to illuminate their extraordinary significance to humans.

Until we have proven ourselves worthy to lead, we cannot expect others to march to our drum.

A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, The Meddlers.

Criticisms of the United States and OAS underlined the need to revive regional integration initiatives independent of U.S. influence.

Former fighter in the M-19 militia beat populist business tycoon and fellow political outsider Rodolfo Hernández in runoff on Sunday

The United States claims that its military presence on the African continent has to do with its counterterrorism campaign and aims to prevent the entry of China into this region.

For 40 years, scientists thought a specific gene was linked to aggression in hamsters. Removing it, however, had violent consequences.

In California, the preliminary report of a governmental task force suggests how the toll of slavery and white supremacy can be assessed—and compensated for.

If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.