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The the onstage stabbing of author Salman Rushdie at a venerable cultural venue in upstate New York is a grim reminder of the need for eternal vigilance in defending the First Amendment.
Baumann was instrumental in driving Bayer to buy Monsanto and has been the public face of the company’s continued insistence that Monsanto’s Roundup, and other glyphosate-based herbicides, are not carcinogenic.
Right-wing zealots are intent on hiding our history with a state-sponsored, Orwellian purging of knowledge. Last year, 1,586 books were banned in 86 school districts, affecting over two million students largely in the South.
The information revealed in the affidavit indicates that our national security and the safety of intelligence agents were put at severe risk when national defense documents were apparently stored in a room at Mar-a-Lago.
Forgiving student loan debt is not a slap at anybody. It's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.
Propaganda by incomplete sentences and outright lies isn't limited to politics. It has been used in business and by Madison Avenue for decades.
One Chick-fil-A franchise in North Carolina tried paying drive-through workers in chicken sandwiches. It didn't go over well.
The authors of a new study are calling on major banks including JPMorgan Chase and HSBC to end their funding of projects by oil and gas companies across Russia.
Imagine what would happen if every media outlet said, "Today we carry nothing about the former guy." The actual power to bring about that scenario rests with us, the wielders of wallets, votes and clicks.
Dani Yuengling researched how much a needle biopsy of a lump in her breast might cost. The hospital website showed it would be about $1,400 for someone without insurance. Her final bill was nearly three times that.
An analysis of the frequency of enslavement in armed conflicts paints a disturbing picture. Most conflicts involving enslavement take place in low-income countries, often referred to as the Global South.
A long list of upcoming trials are complicating Bayer’s efforts to escape the costly, ongoing litigation over the health effects of Roundup.
"It’s time we crack down on the big, price gouging corporations that are making record profits while jacking up prices for all of us," said John Fetterman, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate.
In the largest political advocacy donation in U.S. history, industrialist Barre Seid funded a group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo, who guided Trump’s Supreme Court picks and helped end federal abortion rights.
For-profit private equity groups buying up rural hospitals has resulted in horror stories of poor patient care, drug shortages and shut downs.
John Fetterman’s attacks against Dr. Oz are definitely entertaining, but they aren’t unprecedented. History shows us why his campaign is effective.
