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The U.S. aerial bombardment of the city of Raqqa, Syria, similar to its bombardment of Mosul, Iraq, was itself terror in the extreme, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. These are huge war crimes.

In the book, “Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat,” Marion Nestle, emerita professor of nutrition at New York University, discusses how the unstated goal of most company-sponsored studies is to increase the bottom line.

Despite lots of bad news, workers around the world have been fighting back, and sometimes winning!

For the past decade, mental health clinicians in California have been leading an offensive campaign to increase patients’ access to timely care.

A new documentary stops just short of examining how a system of oppression contributed to the young woman’s apparent suicide.

Unlike income inequality, wealth inequality along racial lines in the US has received relatively little attention. New evidence on the changing landscape of relative wealth among whites, blacks, and Hispanics between 1983 and 2016.

Nothing unites our political class like the threat of ending our never-ending war

Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice

Once one of the biggest urban enclaves of African-Americans, peaking at 1.2 million in the 80s, Chicago’s black population is projected to drop to 665,000 by 2030, according to the Urban Institute.

China's Chang'e 4 mission to the moon has something else up its sleeve