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Declining renewable energy prices have not led to a long-predicted renewables boom, because green energy still isn’t sufficiently profitable for private investors. Public investment and ownership is essential to driving a rapid green transition.

In America’s Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-owned Automotive Sector in the United States, Timothy J. Minchin investigates why the companies located where they did and what the decisions meant for workers and their communities.

Swift represents a constituency conservatives are losing big time: Young women.

Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives

Gary, Indiana’s long-running lawsuit against the world’s largest gunmakers is jeopardized by a bill that would allow only the state to sue.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was the tie-breaking vote on a measure that conflicts with Biden’s strategy in the Middle East.

How did a single chapter from a book written over six decades ago by a Black psychiatrist, who never discussed the Israel-Palestine issue, become widely cited in relation to October 7? A new biography explores the life of Frantz Fanon.

Did large dinosaurs go extinct the way a Hemingway character quipped he went broke: “gradually, then suddenly”? Eoneophron adds evidence that caenagnathids were doing quite well for themselves before the asteroid ruined everything.

Today’s hatemongering reflects a deeply rooted problem: a global “crisis of the right to stay home” due largely to Washington’s role in structuring the world’s economics and politics.

Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.