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There’s fun to be had in Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski’s satisfyingly tech-fearing adventure – but some restraint wouldn’t have gone amiss

In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Building from below, workers can organize a well-planned strike—over the objections of more conservative unions—draw on their knowledge of the production process, hit the company where it hurts the most, and wrest real gains.

Production of This Week in People's History was interrupted by a bad stomach bug. The next edition of the weekly feature will appear as usual a week from today.

Since launching a war against Iran, Trump has had not presented a coherent statement of his objectives. But before he was president he repeatedly stated a single clear objective for a President to launch a war. Here are Trump's own words.

Farmworkers know that consumers have no idea how much human effort it takes to get broccolini onto our dinner tables.

The U.S. and Israel claimed Khamenei was in hiding. “This is just fabricated drama to make Trump look bigger and more dramatic than he really is,” stated a senior Iranian official. Khamenei’s secret location, it turned out, was simply his office.

The Mexican Revolution inspired an extraordinary cultural efflorescence, with painting as its leading art form. The spectacular murals of Diego Rivera, inspired by Mexico’s popular history and culture, are the most remarkable legacy of that period.

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.