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The government insists that the oil giant should pay Ecuador reparations for thousands of oil spills in the Amazon rain forest.

A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century.

The biographies of icons frequently fall into one of two categories. On the one hand they may be laudatory, in some cases turning the subject into a saint. At the opposite end, they can tend towards tell-all pieces, in some cases aiming to tear down the subject.

Can plant-based burgers really replace the real thing, especially for someone who enjoys meat? Here's what Ione author found in serious taste tests.

Activists in the movement for black lives are working to lift the veil on one of the most powerful influences in law enforcement: police unions.

According to our best theories of physics, the universe is a fixed block where time only appears to pass. Yet a number of physicists hope to replace this “block universe” with a physical theory of time.

Truus Menger-Oversteegen was part of a generation that sacrificed everything to fight Nazism and build a better world.

Although it has been more than 60 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision establishing that separate schools for white students and black students are not equal, schools in the U.S. remain very economically and racially segregated.

With increasing Latino activism, once-Republican Arizona is becoming contested terrain, though registration still lags. Will this be the year?

Why negotiating “great trade deals” is not the answer