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Gut dwellers signal immune cells to stay calm and dial down inflammation.

On May 1, just two days before World Press Freedom Day, Egyptian police raided the offices of the Press Syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists, sparking mass demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s escalating attacks on the media. On April 25, 46 journalists were arrested for covering the mass demonstrations throughout Egypt against the al-Sisi regime’s decision to cede the Egyptian islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia.

Proposed cuts would have slashed members' pension checks by 50% or more.

In a sense, the current debate over just how much employment is or isn’t “precarious” misses the bigger change in U.S. working-class life over the past three decades or more: the decline in living standards experienced by the vast majority of this class. One measure of this is the fall in both hourly and weekly real wages which despite some ups and downs remain below their 1972 level.

Nine months ago Birmingham became first city in the Deep South to raise the minimum wage, then saw it overturned by law described as 'a slap in the face'

This project allows us to explore the relationships between social movements by bringing them together in time and space. We map the 353 towns and cities that elected socialists to public office between 1904 and 1920. These are interactive maps that can be filtered on a number of variables while providing detailed information about places, publications, periodicals.

Socialist politics come from below, not experts. But that doesn't mean we should cede policy debates to neoliberals.

The English poet John Daniel provides a perfect Mother's Day memory of his hard-working Mum, Violet Daniel, who defied the usual expectations of mothering. Happy Mothers Day!

Huge supercolliders aren’t the only way to search for new physical phenomena. A new generation of experiments that can fit on a tabletop are probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy and searching for evidence of extra dimensions.