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Dubious forensic techniques have spread throughout the criminal justice system for decades. Here’s what ProPublica has learned about junk forensic science techniques and how they proliferate.

Consumer Reports identified five chocolate brands containing heavy metals — specifically cadmium and lead — but the research also revealed safer dark chocolate options.

"And many physicians are now finding it difficult to quash the suspicion that our institutions, and much of our work inside them, primarily serve a moneymaking machine."

Glacier Northwest vs. Teamsters could drastically change how unions are able to strike. Here’s how Starbucks Workers United is preparing.

Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.

Around the country, corporate utility giants like DTE in Michigan are leaving communities vulnerable while impeding progress on decarbonization—and that’s exactly why a transition to community-owned utilities must happen.

How the Greenhouse Effect Really Works.

One tool of Senate procedure—the budget reconciliation process—provides a limited end run around the filibuster. The reconciliation process allows a certain subset of legislation to pass with a simple majority.

The discipline emerged from Black struggle. Now the College Board wants it to be taught with barely any mention of Black Lives Matter.

Congress sent $600 million to Jackson to help fix its water system. Some are warning that new legislation could funnel the money out of the city.