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There were 1,319 fewer jobs in TV writing in the 2023-24 season.

Social Security faces a long-term shortfall that would be easy to fix if Republican lawmakers listened to voters. Republican and Democratic voters alike support addressing the shortfall through revenue increases, not benefit cuts.

Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

Our commitment as the AFL-CIO, as the Labor Movement, is we’re not going to be looking back in 10 years like we did with the air traffic controllers saying we should have done something. We’re going to use every resource that we have.

This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself.

The American Library Association and a union representing more than 42,000 cultural workers nationwide have filed a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s deep cuts to the federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought the experience of postrevolutionary Cuba to the screen in classic movies like Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate. Alea’s committed, artistically dazzling work set a benchmark for political cinema.

Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while his style is stolen by AI.

The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?