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DNA fragments from thousands of years ago are providing insights into multiple sclerosis, diabetes, schizophrenia and other illnesses.

The 2018 Farm Bill okayed the production of hemp, removed it from the DEA's list of Controlled Substances and changed the marijuana landscape — that doesn’t erase criminalization’s disastrous impact on the working class.

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.

"We need a song that transcends the moment instead of leaving us to have to live in that feeling of despair and horror and hunger and human suffering,” Collins said.” We have to be given something to lift us over that and through that.”

Young workers face pay discrimination in 34 states and DC

Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

Following 737 crashes, the GOP presidential hopeful helped crush a proposal to force more disclosure of Boeing’s spending to influence safety regulators.

War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.

He was one of the last survivors of a historic walkout that demanded respect and a living wage and that drew Martin Luther King to their cause.

Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.