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Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

Two legal service volunteers argue millions of hardworking immigrants have filled out paperwork yet they remain without protections.

In Acceleration, sociologist Michael Messner shares sordid stories about aging into his 80's; of declining hair, weakening muscles, arthritic hands, eyesight, wrinkles, and humorous ads to remain stro...

The prospects for peace in the Middle East suffered a fresh setback, with President Donald Trump saying he’s not interested in extending the expiring agreement with Iran and fighting flaring anew in L...

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.

Two volunteers discuss the men they encountered being held by ICE at Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico.

Uncertainty. Fear. Boredom. Time in These Facilities Is Worse Than Prison

What should Democrats be doing? Not this.

Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.

Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel’s strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself

A review of nearly 100 years of high school yearbooks from Salinas High School in California showcases a nostalgic, not always accurate, version of high school.

It’s spring, and Democrats are exulting over the prospect of recapturing the House in November. Enthused optimists conjure scenarios where Democrats flip the Senate. Maybe, some imagine, this could ev...

The US-Israeli war will have a lifelong impact on millions of children across the Middle East

Protesters understand the assignment. They're showing up to save democracy.

Black Power, White Heat is a major historical reinterpr…

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Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

War, injustice and a coalition in the making

When I was 10, I went camping with Donnie Hallstone and his dad. We skipped stones in a shallow creek and cooked out on a fire. In the evening light,

Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

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A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

In this episode of Sociologist Talking, James welcomes Mike Messner to discuss Mike's new book, 'The High School,' which examines the sociological significance of high school yearbooks from Salinas Hi...

President Trump’s return to office has fueled the grassroots forces that have driven a spike in LGBTQ book bans in recent years, creating a notable chill in the market for queer stories, according to authors and others in the publishing industry.

US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister