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Many processed foods now common in civilian life were first created by and for the military-industrial complex. Thank Uncle Sam for Cheetos, air fryers, and other modern mainstays.

Federal safety authority Osha has imposed millions in fines on discount retailer which is largest retail chain in US.

Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.

The HBO film adapts the FBI transcript from Reality Winner’s interrogation into a stunning thriller.

The ruling means Glacier Northwest Inc. can sue over its claim that wet concrete loaded onto trucks was rendered useless after workers walked off the job.

Lavinia Kumar’s poetry protests the government’s repression of safe medical abortion.

A strike is a collective assertion of our dignity. It’s not about money — except insofar as, in America, money equals respect.

A weakness of labor is an inability to critically examine the stakes. As a healthy organization, you have to be able to examine the past, acknowledge it, account for it, and move forward. Without that you’re stuck in a circular trap.

Workers at the Crown Heights pizzeria Barboncino are organizing a union with Workers United. It would be the first pizzeria of its kind to go union in New York — and perhaps not the last.

In this new book, writes reviewer Clemens, author Walzer "muses on the evolution of the word liberal, from indicating a fixed ideology to signifying a ‘universal’ set of values that can be attached to a diverse array of political projects."