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In the wealthiest country on earth, we are experiencing a human-made nutrition crisis. Since H.R.1 (House Resolution) passed in July 2025, an estimated 5 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost SNAP benefits.

Survivors have the potential to be a political bloc that transforms the conditions that enable the scale of sexual violence in the United States.

Brazil’s presidential election is on a knife-edge. Right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro has powerful interests on his side but is also counting on the Trump administration’s help to push him over the line.

The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.

France’s education system is stretched to its limits, as student anger kicks off a hot fall protest season.

Government forces fend off waves of Houthi attacks as civilians in the populous province are imperiled.

A better solution is to fully fund the Child Care and Development Fund instead of redirecting resources away from working families

A generation of Americans learned from Nazi Germany that monopolies fuel fascism. It’s time we relearned that lesson.

Update: On October 2, the SITIAVW bargaining committee reached a tentative agreement with VW offering a 13.16 percent combined increase to wages and benefits over the next two years.

​M​att Parker and Trey Stone t​ake aim at the obscenely wealthy ​in the latest episode – but it feels harder now to forget how wealthy they are