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Incisive reporting on elections, primaries, voting rights and the party process.

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Environmental journalism that integrates the path for sustainable lifestyles and an ethical diet.

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Inspiring stories of people’s efforts to reshape and reinvest in our local economy.

Our Schools

Going to the front lines of the nationwide effort to privatize and undermine the public education system.

Face to Face

Going beyond headlines, labels and caricatures to find the social, political, spiritual common ground upon which we can build a shared politics.

Economy for All

Making the case for the general welfare of American society and the world at large.

Globetrotter

Lifting the voices of journalists working from the continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to make a world free of suffering.

Drug Reporter

Covering the disastrous war on drugs and mass incarceration it produces—and the growing movement to reform it.

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Earth | Food | Life Archives

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Trump Administration’s New Orwellian GMO Labels Won’t Actually Say ‘GMO’

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Biggest Wall Street Bank CEO Condemned Trump’s Paris Agreement Pullout—He’s Still Financing Fossil Fuels

If We’re Truly Honest About Gun Violence, We Must Acknowledge That Non-Human Animals Are Also Victims

Scott Pruitt Violated All Three Principles He Committed to Protect at the EPA

How Science-Based Policy and International Cooperation Can Protect Marine Ecosystems—and the Human Food Supply

I Know Just How Incredible Chickens Are: I’ve Spent More Than Thirty Years Getting to Know Them

6 Labels That Let You Know You’re Buying Good Food

Trump Is Threatening the Future of Our Children and Planet Through Family Planning Position

Senate Approval of Mike Pompeo’s Secretary of State Nomination Would Spell Disaster for Planet Earth

Could This Device End the Use of Animals in Medical Research?

Here Are 13 Transformational Bills in Congress That Could Change America As We Know It

A Truckload of Plastic Enters Our Oceans Every Single Minute—This Has to Stop

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ExxonMobil Is Being Sued for Climate Damages by an American Inland Community for the First Time

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