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For 18 days, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.

Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.

“To have a fighting chance to combat catastrophic climate change, we must phase out fossil fuels.”

"Policies that minimize soil degradation and protect soil biodiversity should be a component of biodiversity protection at all levels."

A national panel is recommending changes to a key poverty measurement. It might sound technical, but the stakes are high.

Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation.

Our current neo-imperial moment is characterized by the American use of Israel as its base in the Middle East and by the employment of air power to subdue any challengers.

Agricultural pesticides leach into the world’s rivers and oceans each year at an alarming rate, damaging a variety of ecosystems.

With 42 million people set to lose $8 billion in food assistance on November 1 because the Trump administration refuses to release existing federal funds, governors of both parties are declaring emergencies, shifting state reserves, and suing the federal government to prevent mass hunger.

Myanmar’s transition from military to civilian government demonstrates that building even a severely curtailed representative democracy with respect for minority rights is a hard task.