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The number of people deemed to be at risk for poverty and social exclusion is at 27.9 percent.

If you didn't get a flu shot, you are endangering more than just your own health. Calculations of herd immunity against common diseases don't make exceptions.

Ronnie Kasrils, head of intelligence during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, on his revolutionary life and the prospects for the country’s left.

An interview with Ronnie Kasrils Ronnie Kasrils, head of intelligence during South Africa's struggle against apartheid, on his revolutionary life and the prospects for the country's left.

This is the near-dystopian endpoint of the neoliberal city: gargantuan corporations forcing cash-strapped cities to publicly bid against each other with tax breaks, subsidies and crass public relations campaigns

Will Unions be Part of the Solution Or the Problem?

A union of anarchist bakers used their pastries as propaganda, assigning them monikers meant to mock those who opposed their efforts.

They will pay much less while your family could pay much more

The most dramatic and beautiful of writers who caught history -- the history of continents and of half-forgotten figures who struggled for what truly mattered -- in a unique fashion, in passages of hardly a page or more.

It’s in our interest to negotiate, to ratchet down tensions that could lead to an accidental nuclear or conventional war