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Spring has brought green shoots in the labor movement too. Here are some causes for hope.

“The American people deserve a foreign policy that serves American interests and American values,” said another critic, “not legislation that places the priorities of a foreign government above American sovereignty.”

The Trump administration is urging Americans to eat more "real" food but has cut funding for schools to buy minimally processed foods from local farmers. USDA ended $660 million for Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS).

White solidarity as a primary political principle dooms democracy.

As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The antidote: high-participation, worker-led organizing.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of scifi. The discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to emerge as a faint anomaly in astronomical data, followed by painstaking process of verification and peer review.

Scahill and Ahmadian discuss the events leading up to Trump’s announcement on Thursday, Iran’s red lines—including the unfreezing of assets an end to the war on Lebanon—and how Israel will seek to sabotage a deal, and economic impact on Iran.

In past eras of American politics, the people, through their representatives in Congress, have shaped and settled constitutional meaning, rebuking the court when it overstepped its role as a legitimate actor.

The industry is hugely lucrative, with endless sums of cash to influence lawmakers. A new report tracks 25 years of health insurance industry donations.

The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.