Trees are indispensible for life as we know it. They clean our air, shade our streets, anchor our soil, and bring beauty to our landscapes. Beyond their environmental services, trees carry deep ...

Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker display two black armbands. The children, both students at North High School, were suspended from classes along with three other students for wearing the bands to ...

For a pantry staple, canola oil has carried more than its share of debate. Some have questioned its safety or misunderstood where it came from, yet its real story is far more nuanced. Its evolution ...

Sean Beienburg dives into the forgotten history of federalism within the United States. The years before the New Deal shaped American states' rights. The U.S. was traditionally a powerful national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a group of white and African American integrationists entered a St. Augustine, Fla. segregated hotel pool in 1964, the hotel ...

In addition to anti-Black racism An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially ...

Whether it’s foreign-policy hawks on the right, cultural conservatives on the left, or fiscal conservatives anywhere, the reductive binary of today’s electoral options can be deeply frustrating for ...

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If you’ve been hearing that canola is a killer, you’re not alone. It’s one of the so-called “hateful eight” seed oils: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says it’s among the most deadly things you can eat, and ...