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Avatar made no secret of its political edge, but the distribution of wealth may be the franchise's most consistent target of criticism.

Dependence on profit-dominated private corporations comes with hard-hearted limits and permanent insecurity.

Chicago poet Donna Pucciani speaks to the cruel conditions facing young refugees, the idea they are not even people.

During the day, immigrant teenagers attend high school. At night, they work in factories to pay debts to smugglers and send money to family. The authorities aren’t surprised by child labor. They’re also not doing much about it.

Recent debates have centered on whether it’s appropriate to compare Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

As the pandemic continues, many women have left the labor market as they shoulder more responsibility for caregiving of children and adult family members, family health needs, homeschooling due to school closures, and managing other disruptions

The grand art museum can serve as a productive source of instruction and insight into the history of colonialism, and the resistance to it, if you know how to look. This book can serve as a useful guide.

Health care workers of color are twice as likely as their white co-workers to catch COVID-19. Unions could be the answer to addressing these disparities.

Traversing the rise of second-wave feminism, Catherine Dwyer’s documentary is an important contribution to an overlooked past

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and some of his organization’s largest affiliate unions are getting behind Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. But others are pushing Michigan Rep. Andy Levin, a former Service Employees International Union organizer.