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EU for the many, Fixing Brexit, Venezuela stands firm, Brazil's unions, Canadian students on climate strike, Cuba to the rescue, Kerala elections, Fury in Costa Rica

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a leading figure of the mid-twentieth century culture of revolt, has just turned 100 years old. Reviewer Crepeau here discusses the poet and writer's newest novel.

Less than a week after some unionized employees of the hospital took to the picket lines a majority of roughly 800 medical residents, interns and fellows at UC Davis Medical Center have signed up to join a labor union.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) privately warned that his caucus could turn on the bill if Puerto Rico is not granted more aid

A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech, or political slogan

"A dream come true for fossil fuel companies, but a nightmare for the American people."

Mueller dud; Reparations poll; Betocare; Power of the NRA; Trump, McCain and MIAs; Hudson Yards horrorshow; Sneak peek at Term 2

In his latest film the comedian turned director continues to reinvent how the genre uses fear to comment on humanity’s evil. Us is a movie about marginalization, about those “Americans” rising up from the underclasses and dispossessing the masters.

The strike is the result of more than a year of negotiations between UIC Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) Local 6297 and the university administration. Since September 2018, 1,500 teaching and graduate assistants have worked without a contract.

"The inability of the US left to frame how Venezuela was understood during the high point of Chavismo has left us largely helpless now, a failure of solidarity . . . with ongoing consequences for Venezuela."