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Anne Willan weaves culinary history, writing and teaching into her fascinating new book, Women in the Kitchen.

The right-wing has effectively taken over much of the media, from TV stations to radio and podcasts. Fortunately, labor organizers and analysts are creating high quality informative podcasts and news shows.

Despite record turnout, the razor-thin margins that ousted Trump sharply illustrate the important role of field work—in-person conversations and timely personal follow-up by trained canvassers—particularly with Black and Latino working class voters.

CNN’s Brian Stelter on the conservative backlash against Fox News, the rise of Newsmax, and the bottomless appetite for right-wing propaganda.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement on November 7, following the election of Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris to the offices of president and vice president of the United States.

Fear of the dark, how people felt on the eve of the presidential election, 2020.

What so many of today's most underpaid and essential workers have in common is simply that they are women. Are we willing to re-examine the assumptions embedded in what we have been told are “free markets” for labor?

With confidence in capitalism at a low ebb and millions challenging Thatcher’s legacy, small wonder her heirs refuse to shed light on the savagery used against those who first resisted neoliberalism. The truth of the miners’ strike must be exposed.

This "remarkable collection," says reviewer Rader, "is the most inclusive and the most comprehensive anthology of Native American poetry to date."

Law enforcement organizations have long treated mass incarceration as a job creation program. In 2020, the tide began turning against them.