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In this op-ed, writer Kim Kelly explains the history behind child labor laws following a report that the Trump administration’s Department of Labor is considering rolling them back.

The potential effects of an anti-union ruling in Janus v. AFSCME could already be on display in Orange County, where a right-to-work group scored a win involving orientations for new in-home health care aides.

The Zionist conquest of Palestine, which began haphazardly in the early 1880s and intensified after the turn of the century, reaching its apogee with British invasion and occupation of the country before the conclusion of World War I, was the inaugural moment of what became known as the Nakba.

The US government terrorizes immigrant families and families of color with thousands of raids each year.

This Memorial Day weekend we need to focus on the crisis of militarism and war that plagues humanity on planet Earth. As Martin Luther King, Jr. so eloquently said decades ago, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

The cost of our military is creating a national moral crisis, where our priorities are skewed, vulnerable communities are threatened, and our veterans aren’t being honored. This year, let’s honor them with action. Let’s end the wars.

Billionaire fund managers and their firms must pay for the damage they’ve caused. Toys “R” Us workers need immediate severance pay—if Bain and KKR were to forgo their predatory profits, each worker would receive about $15,000 in severance, a pittance for what in many cases is a lifetime of diligent

Some kinds of storytelling may be "too cold" for children, while others are "too hot." And, of course, some are "just right."

The addition of a citizenship question is far more likely to inhibit the successful trial of VRA cases, by increasing the inaccuracy of the Census, than it is to improve the assessment of VRA claims due to greater precision.

A party built on demonizing and attacking marginalized people is a party that will have to disenfranchise those same people if it is to survive.