Archaeologists in Mexico find first Mayan slave ship
Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a Mayan slave ship. It is the first time this kind of ship has been found. Scientists say the wreck is believed to date back to...
Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Will Get A Congressional Vote Next Week, Leader Announces
A bill to federally legalize marijuana will receive a full floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives next week, a top Democratic leader in the chamber announced on Friday.
House Majority...
New U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela
The United States Embassy in Bogotá announced on May 28 that the U.S. is sending 50 or so soldiers of the Army’s 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) to Colombia. They would be...
Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism
When the U.S. Civil War ended, Edward A. Pollard “of Virginia” immediately wrote a history of Confederate military operations—The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates—where...
What You Eat Might Make Your CBD Oil Work Even Better
Cannabidiol (CBD) oil has become a multi-billion dollar industry, with recreational athletes dishing out a large chunk of that change for the promise of pain relief, faster recovery, better sleep, and more.
Some...
What to Do If You’ve Been Hacked
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have been working from home, banking from home, attending school from home, and doing pretty much anything else imaginable from home. But unfortunately, bad actors...
A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an...
Wildfires with the hidden men and women on the front lines of the state’s ever-growing fire season: prisoner firefighters. Of the 13,000 firefighters battling blazes across the state, more than 2,500...
7 Best Marijuana Strains For Overall Good Health And Disease Prevention
The ongoing pandemic awoke an important discussion that people haven’t had for a while; how to boost the immune system. People are popping vitamins and eating citrus fruits in a bid to...
Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War
On Monday, the retired four-star general and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly asserted that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.” This was an...
Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular
One common response to the national anthem protests originated by Colin Kaepernick is to disparage them as polarizing. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe, summed up this particular critique in a tweet:
This...