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What would the world look like if all workers were this close to the soil?

On the one hand, Texas is a staunch law-and-order state where conservatives support Trump's immigration agenda; on the other hand, if ICE is too successful, employers are wondering where they're going to find people to man their businesses.

Unions are taking a stand to protect TPS holders with the message that immigrant rights are worker rights.

With a few limited exceptions, correctional practice today remains underpinned by retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation. These realities beg the question: isn’t there another way? We have failed to ask this question with sufficient seriousness

Through local action, Democrats this November have a chance to untilt the playing field in every state that now has an extreme partisan gerrymander.

Composer Hanns Eisler was a lifelong communist and self-described Jacobin. His music provided the soundtrack for both the tragedies and triumphs of German antifascism.

Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that permit juries to convict defendants without unanimous agreement.

New work at the intersection of atmospheric science and ecology is finding that forests can influence rainfall and climate from across a continent.

The President of the NAACP’s California chapter has a history of leveraging the NAACP brand to line her own pockets. This year she is slated to reap at least $800,000 to oppose a statewide rent control measure on the November statewide ballot.

The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), directed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with its $45 billion commitment, is the single largest contributor towards SoftBank’s Vision Fund.