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Not a robot, suggests poet Lisa Allen Ortiz. Prove it and she deftly does.

Workers are fighting back against private equity — the ruthless industry that strips and flips companies for profit.

“Unless and until the Debt Limit Statute is amended or revised to allow Congress to determine the priority of payments among specific programs once the limit is reached, members of Plaintiff NAGE will suffer irreparable injury from layoffs, furloughs, and loss of employment that are taken without any legitimate authority by the President"

After a months-long organizing campaign, the resident and fellow physicians at the University of Pennsylvania voted to unionize. The doctors’ victory marks a significant moment for the labor movement in Philadelphia, as it is the largest successful union election in over 53 years.

Chi Boy is part memoir, part social history, part eulogy for his ancestors, and part tribute to men whose literary output continues to inspire him.

Manuela Martelli’s new film examines the Pinochet dictatorship through the eyes of a woman who never intended to play an active role.

Lemonade became an emblem of the temperance movement. Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady from 1877 to 1881, bore the nickname “Lemonade Lucy” for her refusal to serve alcohol in the White House.

Undergraduate workers are winning collective bargaining rights, making student unions increasingly common. They’re driven by the pandemic, pro-union sentiment and each other.

Members of Congress have taken note of Apple's actions at unionizing stores, and have officially addressed the allegations that the company is chronically preventing its retail staff from organizing at multiple locations.

Shonda Rhimes’s new show imagines an interracial romance that remakes Regency England. That sure didn’t happen.