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Climate Change Is Making Kenya’s Droughts More Severe
Kenya's current severe drought, exacerbated by the recent La Nina, has left over two million people in Kenya without enough to eat.
New Orleans’ Ninth Ward Fights Freeway Through Historic Black Neighborhood
New Orleans residents are fighting a racist freeway project that would damage the community and uproot families.
As Trump Slashes EPA, Worry Over the Fate of an Agency Doing Similar Work
The work of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is at risk.
What Slashing the Labor Department Budget by 21 Percent Would Mean
The Trump administration's “budget blueprint” would devastate worker safety and job training programs.
Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil Linked to Slave Labor in the Amazon
Slave labor-analogous conditions were revealed by investigation of logging camps in Para, Brazil.
The Fed’s Interest Rate Hike Will Prevent People From Getting Jobs
This month the Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates for the third time in the last year and a half.
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What Every Country Can Do to Make Schools Safer
Schools should be safe places for children — even during wartime.
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It’s Time to Dismantle Trump’s Murder Budget and Defund Militarism
Trump's budget prioritizes murder over survival. In order to effectively confront it, we must challenge US militarism itself.
Republicans Are Racing to Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy
Among the targets are rules that protect the manufacturing and construction workers the Trump administration claims to support.
In the US, Amnesty Has a History of Preserving Whiteness
The political viability of any carte blanche amnesty program hinges on the racialization of its beneficiaries as white.