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Cuban engagement in Africa left profound impacts, both on the host countries and on the Cubans who went.

The House of Representatives is not representative

Howard Zinn's life was a model for left-wing intellectuals to both produce and take action to transform the world.

“Campesinos” are driving the evolution of maize in North America

Gamification is the use of game elements in non-game contexts. Incentivizing workers based on individual competition and bonuses isn’t new, but when Sarah Mason became a Lyft driver she found the gig economy had taken gamification to another level.

Going forward, American exports and supply chains could be disrupted, agricultural yields could fall to 1980s levels by midcentury and fire season could spread to the Southeast, the report finds.

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?

A landmark study finds that most Americans do not fit neatly into the ideological camps on the right or the left.

The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.

The poet Clint Smith draws a haunting link between Kaepernick the football player and his own son sitting in a grocery cart.