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Meeting the challenges of modern medicine will require more than seeing patients.

Contrary to Trump, US government, and mainstream media hype and reporting—a growing number of independent surveys show that wages have not been rising as they claim. And 500,000 fewer jobs were actually created last year than initially reported.

Climate activism isn’t new, but the last year has seen a resurgence in attention devoted to the subject.

The first in a five-day series where our writer gauges the mood of US progressives during a 10-day trip across the country.

Three Reports From UK * La Via Campesina on the Amazon Fire * Solidarity with Kurds in Turkey * German Unions and Climate Action * West Bengal Postmortem * Opposing Xenophobia in South Africa * Immanuel Wallerstein 1930-2019

Greta at UN; Straight Pride; Texas Shooting; Trump's Terrorists; Locker Room Nudity; Neutralizing the Center; Border Shame

Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.

If Lightfoot wanted to plug the budget hole without cutting services and freezing hiring, the money is there. But don’t count on it—not without a fight.

There are the three great tropical forests. The Amazon, the Congo and Indonesia and Borneo. They’re all massively important, and in all of them over the last 20 years we’re seen really destructive forest fires.

Simon Haeder, assistant professor of public policy at PA State U said the outbreaks show how the addiction crisis and the diseases it fuels endanger everyone, while also revealing cracks in the nation’s patchwork, poorly funded public health system.