Adopted by almost 200 parties at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference, the Paris Agreement captures international ambitions for cooperative climate action.

Eugene Debs campaigned for both president and prison reform from a federal penitentiary. His critiques of the prison system still resonate.

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Prohibition—and its newly created underground economy—changed the way women lived, worked, and socialized.

Revelations about secret government programs after Kennedy’s assassination increased the power of conspiracy theories and the fervor of those who set out to expose them.

During World War I, the American Library Association built libraries on military training camps in a project that championed patriotism, literacy, and self-improvement.

Or, how a moribund act of legislation continues to shape the fight for reproductive rights in the United States.

Poems by Alice Notley, Fred Moten, C. D. Wright, Jean Valentine, Michael Burkard, and more.

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Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish.