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Post-Brexit Shifts Deprive Refugees in Calais of Needed Support
Refugee camps in Calais now look more like concentration camps — the people in them desperately need the world's help.
Why Utilities Have Little Incentive to Plug Leaking Natural Gas
The problem of methane leakage is hardly news to environmentalists and regulators, who have been following it for years.
Trump and His Trumpeting Media
Is the master of the echo chamber about to acquire a whole new channel?
Investing in the Care Economy: Domestic Workers in California Hope for Overtime Pay
Greater public investment is needed to help people with disabilities pay caregivers living wages and overtime pay.
Climate Change Pledges Not Nearly Enough to Save Tropical Ecosystems
The carbon pledges made by 178 nations in Paris to date won't likely save tropical coral reefs or cloud forests, or prevent mass global extinctions.
Graduate Students Are Workers: The Decades-Long Fight for Graduate Unions, and the Path Forward
The NLRB's ruling that teaching and research assistants at Columbia University are workers and are legally protected is historic.
India’s First Fully Organic State Faces Many Challenges to Maintaining Its Status
It's too early to hail Sikkim's transition to chemicals-free agriculture an outright success, say observers.
Socializing the Corrupt: Cheating, Education and Law Enforcement in Pennsylvania
Law enforcement leaders create an educational system for socializing corrupt police in Pennsylvania.
EPA’s Inaction Made Way for Lead Poisoning in Children, Lawsuit Claims
Seven years after promising new standards for assessing lead dust dangers, the federal government hasn't delivered.
Black Women Do Breastfeed, Despite Intense Systemic Barriers in the US
Targeted and systemic support for Black mothers is needed to overcome the racial gap in breastfeeding rates in the US.