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When this tracker was launched, we had 96 entries, almost two attempts to silence science each week during the 14 months after President Trump was elected. Since then, the Trump administration’s attacks on science have accelerated.

Some 425 Chicago public school students died between the 2013-14 and 2016-17 school years. One in four attended an alternative high school, though these schools accounted for only around 2 percent of the district’s enrollment.

When the Spanish flu hit the Swedish city of Östersund in 1918, the rampant social inequality ensured its devastating impact. But the legacy of the “capital of the Spanish flu” is a city and country better equipped to deal with current challenges.

This chart shows how far behind America is in paid time off compared to the rest of the world

What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States

Non-white workers build more wealth as union members Job tenure, benefits create access to saving and investment

This was the first incarnation of the Pledge of Allegiance, composed by Bellamy, though conspicuously missing two prominent elements, namely, any mention of the United States or of God.

The Guerrilla Grafters graft fruit bearing branches onto non-fruit bearing, ornamental fruit trees. We aim to turn city streets into food forests, and unravel capitalist civilization one branch at a time.

The subject of Phyllis Klein’s poem is homelessness and a simple, albeit personal solution.