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The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee has helped workers take collective action during the pandemic.

The Pentagon reversed years of opposition to closing the fuel storage facility near Pearl Harbor amid political pressure from the community.

The worst possible outcome seems to be playing out. The current developments in Eastern Europe have at least six medium- to long-term geopolitical consequences — all of which are deeply worrying.

The flavorful grains that transformed the North American prairies during the 19th century into a continental breadbasket were varieties native to Ukraine’s Black Earth districts of Crimea and Galicia [now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine].

The state’s assault on public education includes a charter school real estate grab, a partnership with a fundamentalist Christian private college, and a potential statewide voucher program.

There are a lot of root causes to Puerto Rico’s debt. But one overarching part of this narrative is the fact that Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States since 1898.

Government investigators say lax regulations are increasing the risk of extreme weather-related chemical disasters.

ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and other oil companies are paying negative taxes on huge profits. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ro Khanna, and other Democrats in Congress propose a windfall tax to change that.

Exposure to leaded petrol as a child has been linked to an average IQ drop of 2.6 points among US adults, increasing to 5.9 points among those born in the mid-to-late 1960s

A new study shows how redlining, a Depression-era housing policy, contributed to inequalities that persist decades later in U.S. cities.