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The Big Three car companies have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks over the past year.

Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs.

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.

Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.

While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life.

Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change, biodiversity loss, and Indigenous sovereignty seriously, all with one national referendum.

The moment that Salvador Allende was violently deposed on September 11, 1973, democratic socialists in the US knew it was a crime. They joined others around the world organizing solidarity efforts and supporting political refugees.

The world needs to end this confrontation in Ukraine, increasingly dangerous in East Asia. Regardless of differences it must be halted. Not bloodily as in Shakespeare’s tragedy, but with some form of détente,, however reluctant either side may be.

The wealthy’s arrogance is wholly unearned.

Obama’s former acting Solicitor General and a senator-turned-lobbyist are helping a dark money group pressure the high court.