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Righting Old Wrongs. How science is shedding a colonial legacy.

In October of 1845, having been silenced by government censors—and on the run from possible extradition—Karl Marx once thought about moving to Texas.

“The Army ain’t no place for a black man,” Wolf recalled years later. “Jus’ couldn’t take all that bossin’ around, I guess. The Wolf’s his own boss.”

After Israel carried out assassinations in Lebanon and Iran, the prospect of war looms over the Middle East.

If Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are elected this fall, not only would a woman of color lead the country for the first time, but a Native woman would govern a state for the first time in U.S. history too.

How is a show about banking more fun than anything else.

The National Labor Relations Board has taken a more forceful pro-labor stance as strikes and organizing efforts ramped up. Potential new leadership and a series of court decisions threaten those efforts.

"In the Olympic Village in Paris, everyone has free healthcare as a human right. In America, 1 in 4 cancer patients go bankrupt or lose their homes because of the outrageously high cost of care."

The Democratic ticket offers vagueness, corporate ties, and now laudable prairie populism. What will the agenda actually be?

Here's how designers can build a stronger labor movement.