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We laugh even before we can speak, but why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you

Workers counting on Trump to deliver a “great American comeback” have been left waiting at the station.

The order forbids “artists, architects, engineers, art or architecture critics, members of the building industry” and anyone else involved with this kind of work from participating in these panels.

That’s the whole reason why we have a Presidential Records Act, to prevent Watergate-style cover-ups. More of us need to start paying attention, because this White House is being allowed to destroy evidence about things that we may never know about.

He boarded a whites-only train car in New Orleans with the hope of getting the attention of the Supreme Court. But it would be a long time before he got justice.

In the larger oneness of humanity, there is no isolation. If others are suffering, don’t we have a responsibility as non-sufferers? Making the film Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths About Israel, Palestine, and the Occupied Territories.

At a press conference on Jan. 6, the President of Mexico said the neoliberal model had failed; private banks were not serving the poor and people outside the cities, so the government had to step in.

Many victims were asylum-seekers attacked or killed by the gangs they originally fled.

To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, what serves the class in power is viewed as the natural order and common sense, and what doesn’t is blasphemy.

Risk of Nuclear War Rises as U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War