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France's elites were quick to condemn the gilets jaunes protesters as stupid and backward. But as novelist Édouard Louis writes, they're just standing up for their rights.

It's not at all clear if the change would help the ailing coal industry. In recent years it has stopped building new plants and been shutting down old ones instead.

The suspension, imposed this past September without a public announcement, came as the government launched a review of all fetal tissue research funded by the federal government.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador was inaugurated president last Saturday in a ceremony unlike any other seen in Mexico. What’s next for the radical new president, and what’s next for the majority of the Mexican people who now have very high expectations?

A state jury rejected arguments that James Alex Fields Jr. acted in self-defense during a "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017.

A Haaretz investigation reveals that Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the ‘Biblical Heartland’ over the past decade. That doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, like volunteer laborers

Unifor, Oshawa and Community Control

The Uradnik case could be the next step. It has just been appealed to the Supreme Court.

In the 1980s, roughly 4.5 million monarchs wintered in California, but at last count, there may be as few as 30,000

“The stench of life is everywhere,” observes the Michigan poet Cal Freeman about human-made hazards wrought on the great inland waters.