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It’s time to end the war on drug users — repeal the heavy penalties for possession; pardon the millions of nonviolent offenders; replace mass incarceration with mandatory drug treatment; restore voting rights to convicts and ex-convicts.

Research shows that people who order on-line tend to focus on healthier foods compared to when they shop in the store.

Review of Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil by John D. French (University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

The climate crisis haunts Chicago’s future.

A lot of questions remain about Congress' path forward to repeal military authorizations that empowered presidents to put boots on the ground and conduct airstrikes. Here's what we know.

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Today many Black artists—women at the forefront—are taking similar strides.

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.

Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kansas, have been on strike since Monday over low pay and forced overtime.

It's hard to say a story is a blistering indictment of privilege without making it seem medicinal, which The White Lotus is not.

Could there be a “hidden reality” that’s completely predictable, understandable, and deterministic underlying what we see?