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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

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Musk’s desire in buying Twitter goes beyond a desire to shape public discourse. Today’s equivalent of the Gilded Age oligarchs, who are gobbling up increasing chunks of the media landscape, also have access to a trove of personal data of users.

Why does the anti-war movement in Russia have a female face? To answer this question, we need to turn to the development of Russian feminism over the past ten years. Feminism in Russia has gone through a rebirth.