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Located in the center of Okinawa Island, Kadena Air Base is the largest United States Air Force installation in Asia. Documents obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act reveal how years of accidents and neglect have polluted local land and water with hazardous chemicals including arsenic, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), asbestos and dioxin.

With Donald Trump now the presumptive Republican nominee for president in the race against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, attention is now turning to the impact the White House contest will have on down-ticket races, including state offices in the South.

The alliance between Podemos and United Left makes them the chief left-wing force in Spanish electoral politics.

Why does categorizing sexual violence as a crime against humanity matter for anti-racist, anti-imperialist feminists? Basically, it is a game changer. Plainly speaking, sexual violence as a crime against humanity chips away at the heteropatriarchal logics entrenched in and foundational to the law.

In the two years since Colorado legalised cannabis, chefs in the state have been finding new ways to make a meal of it.

Assessing how White people benefit from race-based economic inequality.

Verizon strikers are fighting against the oppression and indignity of the American workplace.

Robert Schenkkan’s Tony award winning All the Way portrays Lyndon Baines Johnson in his finest hour, and its multi-media staging on Broadway was already cinematic in nature. HBO’s TV adaptation — directed by Jay Roach in collaboration with Schenkkan’s screenplay and airing Saturday — has upped the ante, giving us a leaner, less unwieldy and more intimate rendering.

Despite a late start in his field, Kerry Knudsen might know more about lichens than anyone alive today.

A new progressive alliance could break the stalemate—but whoever wins will face a hamstrung economy and deep discontent with politicians.