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The Minimum Wage Is Very Aptly Named (1961), What Does a Non-violent Movement Do About Threats of Violence? (1966), If You Haven’t Seen It, Now’s the Time (1966)

A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth

There’s broad consensus that the food system needs updating but little agreement about how to do it. Calls for ambitious policy responses to climate and geopolitical risks in the current food system are growing louder.

Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.

"The goal of COINTELPRO wasn’t simply surveillance. Its goal was to divide us and make us distrust one another.” The technologies have changed. But perhaps the underlying energy has not.

A century ago, Mexican American families came together to build an adobe church near the border in West Texas. Can its bell toll again as the wall expansion nears?

Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.

Politics--alas--is what we need

Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.

Any post-MAGA renewal of democracy starts with a federal right to vote. But it hardly ends there.