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Struggles making history

Labor organizations in the Golden State likely have seen greater stability because of the pro-union political leadership here and the creativity and energy of organizers.

Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations.

Israel’s Monday morning strike on a Gaza hospital—a so-called “double-tap” assault—was designed for maximum killing. When is enough?

The Trump administration is refusing to enforce a Biden-era rule limiting junk short-term health plans that are notorious for charging more or denying coverage altogether for people with conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cancer.

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

The Talented Mr Ripley gets an upgrade in a buzzy and biting film about a desperate outsider who infiltrates the inner circle of a singer on the rise

A busy summer

"We should have done more," said Jeanne Shaheen, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "Everybody should have said more sooner."

That George Orwell, famous as the author Animal Farm and 1984, came to his ideas about freedom via his thinking about work, poverty and democratic socialism, among other themes, may surprise those familiar with only his dystopian fiction