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Seventeen recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have signed an open letter in support of President Biden’s Build Back Better package currently being considered in Congress.

Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and analysis from all over

This award-winning collection of short stories, writes reviewer Simms, "stands within a tradition of writing that’s about the beauty and burden of Black life within oppressive social systems."

After half a century studying the issue, here's lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly.

In Vermont, everyone loves clean energy—when it comes from someplace else

The city will decide on a sweeping measure that would limit the size, scope and influence of its police department.

More than 1.2 million Americans are currently displaced from their homes because of climate change impacts—including increasingly severe storms, wildfires, and flooding.

Working in US public sector feels untenable for many amid lack of benefits, low pay and lack of general investment.

About 815,000 jobs have been lost in the American public sector since the start of the pandemic and job recovery in the public sector has lagged behind the private sector.

The beautiful souls that created free jazz — including Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry and Carla Bley — light up this new documentary from Tom Surgal.