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Did large dinosaurs go extinct the way a Hemingway character quipped he went broke: “gradually, then suddenly”? Eoneophron adds evidence that caenagnathids were doing quite well for themselves before the asteroid ruined everything.

Today’s hatemongering reflects a deeply rooted problem: a global “crisis of the right to stay home” due largely to Washington’s role in structuring the world’s economics and politics.

Looking at American health care is an exercise in despair, with health conglomerates engaged in killing people for profit, with endless 10-15 percent increases in annual premiums, and with judges and policymakers not even knowing where to start.

Freedom in Reproduction-Maryland is taking the lead, working with other abortion rights groups to persuade voters to approve the new language in an informational campaign called “Vote Yes on Reproductive Freedom."

Internal AIPAC materials reveal huge gifts from moguls — and the strategies lobbyists used to score the cash.

“If Donald Trump ever worked in an auto plant, he wouldn’t be a UAW member. He’d be a company man trying to squeeze the American worker.

An interactive tool that shows the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living, for every County in the United States.

New Orleans poet William Miller shines a light on the hard times that afflict our working class and people on the run.

They are among America’s most vulnerable laborers. They are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job.