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Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics

Why didn't we listen? We could so easily have listened.

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Homelessness has doubled in the past four years, yet some observers still parrot top-down excuses for this increase.

Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry (1960), A Classic Ragtime Spiritual (1925)

Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical edge that hollered for the country to make its bounty available to rich and poor alike.

The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.

DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.

The scale of what Trump has promised is difficult to fathom and without recent precedent. A century and a half ago, however, a movement to cast out a different group of people began to accelerate in the United States.