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“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself.

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald helped change safety standards. There has not been a single major commercial shipwreck on the Great Lakes, he says, for the past 50 years.

As the nation endures record inequality and a prolonged government shutdown, Tesla shareholders have granted CEO Elon Musk a pay deal that could make him the world’s first trillionaire, prompting fierce backlash.

Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price.

Second-Highest Since 2009 in Potential Sign of Looming Recession

Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.

Medicare And Medicaid Privatization

Songwriter Billy Joel takes us to the scene of the crime, an economic crime perpetrated on the people of Allentown, PA.

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.

The continuing expansion of Amazon’s business model could signal the unraveling of wages, benefits and protections for working people more generally.