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The whole subsidy to retiree story is a diversion from the many important issues facing the country. Even the core idea, that we don’t adequately support the young because we give too much to the elderly is wrong.

US’ historical legacies of brutality in Somalia, connecting these patterns to the US corporate interests in extracting natural resources in Somalia, and the broader legacies of militarized accumulation, environmental destruction, and racist brutality

Olive oil prices spiked to fresh records as severe droughts in major producing continue to crimp supplies — driving desperate people to resort to stealing it.

An algorithm that can analyse hundreds of millions of genetic sequences has identified DNA-cutting genes and enzymes that are extremely rare in nature.

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,”

In the throes of the Cold War, a tiny Caribbean island dared to wage a revolutionary experiment. As the Revo imploded, the United States invaded.

A federal appeals court decision is so outlandish that the Supreme Court will almost certainly reverse it.

The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.

Fargo's Season 5 reverses course to become the most contemporary “Fargo” entry to date, and thus the first to take place during the Trump administration.

A group of Google contractors have successfully voted to unionize. The decision classifies Google as a “joint employer” to staffing firm Accenture’s employees who work on Google’s content that includes Search and Bard.