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Timothy Faust’s new book is part history, part manifesto, and part irreverent tour guide to America’s deeply flawed health insurance system.

Two trains are running in opposite directions. One is racing toward a nuclear weapons-free world. The other is spending unimaginable fortunes to upgrade their omnicidal nuclear arsenals and making "mad man" threats to use them.

It’s not that complicated. GM has been highly profitable, and workers haven’t forgotten the sacrifices they made to prop up the company.

The future of work means fewer hours spent working.

To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.

Appearing in a Haifa court a few months after Israel was founded in 1948, the violinist made clear that he would play no part in the war Israel was then fighting against its neighbors. He regarded Arabs as his brothers, not his enemies.

The socialist island Cuba is a rare example of large scale reforestation, whereas the rest of the world moves in the opposite direction.

...now is the time for bold long-term solutions that can help secure the future health and well being of our communities. Public pharmaceuticals can play an important role in constructing that future we so desperately need.

Celebrity chef José Andrés and his nonprofit humanitarian relief organization, World Central Kitchen, have served more than 200,000 free meals in the Bahamas and distributed food in the Carolinas and Florida since Dorian hit.

With top leaders discredited but refusing to step away, GM strikers have just one tool to use between their rock and their hard place: their right to vote no. Chrysler workers did it in 2015.