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How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

We are a team of bioarchaeologists, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists who, with our colleagues, recently discovered the earliest evidence of cremation.

Renee Good’s death is part of a decades-long continuum in which state violence has come to resemble the dynamics survivors recognize from private life: domination framed as protection, punishment framed as necessity, rage framed as fear.

Can industry insiders make America healthy again?

He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.

Today Trump announced 10% tariffs against 8 European countries that oppose his takeover of Greenland.

Norristown, Pennsylvania, is a majority-renter town with deep industrial roots. New councilmember David McMahon explains why the suburbs aren’t a monolith — and why suburbs like his are fertile ground for socialist organizing.

Venezuelans are not a political monolith. People in Venezuela can oppose the government, but still reject US intervention. They can be angry at corruption or mistakes the government has done, but still remember foreign interventions and meddling.

Poet Christine Holland struggles against the disasters reported daily in the news, finding hope in the world's resilience and her own.

We are fighting for the dignity and the respect that we deserve as nurses, as healthcare providers, as professionals, and for the dignity and respect that in turn, we can give to our patients.