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Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there.

The pedophile plutocrat had some peculiar predilections—especially for academics and thinkers who showed a potential to further his grand experiments in inhumanity. Epstein didn’t pull people into his web and then corrupt them. The club existed.

Black History Month insists that the struggle for justice did not end with emancipation, federal civil rights legislation, or symbolic inclusion. It reminds us that understanding the past is not about guilt or grievance, but about responsibility.

“The Omani FM decided to go public,” suggested one observer, “so that the American people knew that peace was within reach when Trump instead opted for war.”

US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

Politicians are known to break promises, but Kennedy's record, 1 year in, has been a failure by most measures, especially his own.

Superstar athletes are close to American royalty, but they still have to fight like other workers for fair pay.

Nearly 60 years ago poet Diane di Prima offered witness to the stealth, courage and discipline required to resist a tyrannical government, lessons once again appropriate for activists and ordinary citizens.

This union-busting "religious exemption" move was abruptly announced on the faculty’s 234th day of working without a contract, following the administration’s prolonged stalling of contract negotiations and hiring of the notorious union-busting firm.