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This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. As the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is struggling to secure adequate resources for functioning independently of the private sector and pressures from high income countries.

Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can see. But the nature of dark matter is a longstanding puzzle.

Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S. army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union victory in Rochester. Court throws out FBI frame-up

If life emerged once, why not more times?

Matching programs give small donors bigger voices.

Technically, drone technology has been around for quite a long time, going back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. It is only in the last two decades when drones have been weaponized with guns, bombs, and missiles.

Data on what's new — and why unions should turn to new organizing

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.

Succession's idea of a media executive personally picking a winner is no longer all that shocking. The recent defamation lawsuit Fox News settled revealed that Rupert Murdoch had been directly involved in making calls for the network.

The United Auto Workers is refusing to endorse Joe Biden until he commits to backing an electric vehicle transition that creates good union jobs. The union’s new reform leadership is absolutely right to hold Biden’s feet to the fire.