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Smithfield’s Pork PR Scam

The factory farm giant can’t call itself “sustainable” while polluting water, spraying manure, and getting into the natural gas business.

For decades, the agriculture department has been indifferent to struggling rural communities. That has to change.

Trump’s trial is over, but there’s still much to learn about the deep pockets who financed the January 6 coup attempt.

Formal education is often a mark of privilege, not intelligence.

Billionaire wealth is exploding. They’re passing that wealth to heirs and heiresses virtually tax-free.

Grocery giants like Kroger are refusing employees hazard pay while buying their own stock with their extra profits.

Research links embracing fossil fuels to conservative ideas about masculinity. Can these ideas change?

This Black History Month, we have a chance to end this relic of slavery — and raise wages for workers of every color.

Biden promised an FDR-sized presidency. Can he grow into one?

The new president is a lifetime insider, but his legacy now depends on working with those the status quo has failed.