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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock forward, at “90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.”

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.

Brandon Johnson, the labor-backed mayor of Chicago, is poised to deliver his first major victory: scrapping the subminimum wage for tipped workers.

The Biden administration is getting bad data and bad advice — but there’s a way out.

The media group was just approved to spread its brand of historical disinformation to classrooms in Florida, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire.

UAW President Fain invited anyone who supports the union — “all the way up to the president of the United States” — to join strikers on the picket lines.

A survivor of the American war in Cambodia, the poet Bunkong Tuon lives with ancestral ghosts and gratitude for what is left.

Storm Daniel was a Mediterranean hurricane that struck Greece, Bulgaria, Libya, Egypt and Turkey, killing thousands. Climatologists are struggling to understand whether this is a harbinger of North Africa's future.

Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so.

Hip-hop was rooted in politics and social justice and a diversity of voices. But now, at 50, has it become a minstrel show?