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Being forced to live with scarce quantities of fossil fuels, it has pioneered different forms of energy saving and alternative energy production. In the last two decades, Cuba has made important achievements in building a more sustainable society

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The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives.

A legally binding prohibition on nuclear tests is a fundamental step in our quest for a world free of nuclear weapons," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.

Racial disparities even starker than at the height of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “stop and frisk” era.

If rehabilitation is the point of our justice system, government agencies shouldn’t punish people who’ve paid their debt, and who are trying to do the right thing.

"This amendment is crucial as taxpayers and other citizens remain concerned—and inadequately informed—about the cost to U.S. taxpayers of the wide range of U.S. military activities abroad.

How to kick our national addiction to prisons

When we think about our latest war — the one that began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is a hidden benefit. As long as American minds are on Ukraine, we are not thinking about planetary climate disruption.

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.