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Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.

Emma Watson is part of a fast-growing choir of decent like-minded people of good faith all over the world, united in the belief that all people, irrespective of their ethnicity or religion or nationality, must have inalienable human rights...

Latino Democrats are increasingly worried that time is running out to do anything that would make a significant difference ahead of the 2022 midterms, when the party needs a robust Latino turnout to preserve its slim majorities in Congress.

What can all of us do now to overcome opposition to voting rights from two Democrats, all 50 Republican senators and nearly all 212 Republican House members?

Focus on national politics in Brazil, Chile, France, Honduras, Libya and Turkey, and saving the planet

He was always proud of his humble working-class roots

Many workers with COVID-19 still—still!—can’t afford to isolate, because they don’t have paid sick leave.

The Bronx apartment fire that recently killed 17 people was a devastating tragedy. It is also the entirely predictable outcome of a housing market that forces tenants to grovel for basic repairs while landlords rule as something close to kings.

Oliver Stone’s new documentary film presents a full and meticulously constructed presentation of the physical evidence which clearly supports his assassination conspiracy theory.

Hard looks at SCOTUS and democracy in crisis