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George Floyd's life was stolen from him, and his murder matters because of that. But the trajectory that took him from one formerly vibrant Black community to another then to an untimely death belongs to a larger story of systemic racial injustice.

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

The International Trade Union Confederation issued a 2025 report showing conditions for workers’ rights across the globe have worsened.

A coalition including leading figures on the right filed a fiery brief with the court that rebuffed most Trump tariffs. The tariffs are "taxation by proclamation" and do violence to the Constitution, the brief argues. One judge cited it eight times.

Farmworkers’ Unions Win a Big One (1975), The Nixon Gang Gets Down to Business (1970), A Deportation that Backfired (1950), Popular Justice Is No Crime (2020), Whitewashing the CIA Isn’t Easy (1975)

"No matter how dangerous this mission is, it's nowhere near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the live-streamed genocide," said climate activist Greta Thunberg, who is aboard the Madleen.

Harry Braverman’s arguments in his classic book Labor and Monopoly Capital presciently forecasted much of our present labor regime — and can help us move beyond it.

One of the long-running show's biggest villains didn't earn her redemption.

The U.S. was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.

Understanding why Trump is using El Salvador to test the limits of illegal deportation requires returning to the US’s long history of outsourcing violence.