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Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his considerable skills to bear in this novel about a pandemic, written before our current crisis erupted.

Just as in the Great Recession, a steep downturn in the private sector is poised to cause big job losses in state and local governments.

Elliza Hittman’s coming-of-age story about a teenager seeking an abortion is heartbreaking and painfully authentic. Hittman has described her film as “a narrative about a girl carrying around a lot of pain and burden, and the lonliness of it all".

No Evil Foods created products like El Zapatista and Comrade Cluck, but workers say its conduct doesn’t live up to its leftist branding.

Workers have walked out of six apple packinghouses in Washington State. They demand safer working conditions and an extra $2 an hour in hazard pay.

Moving to a single-payer system could enable more unions to win excellent healthcare through group practice clinics for their members—an essential next step after winning universal access to care.

Snowpiercer is full of people who aren’t white men who nonetheless prop up an unequal system; the series contemplates the ways in which we are all cogs in the machine, while looking to all of these same parties to dismantle it.

“Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”, part 1

Arizona-based poet Lollie Butler’s poetry captures the horrors of refugees crossing the Sonora desert.

After striking, the workers were fired en-masse earlier this week. Now, the city has found new workers to replace the striking workers - prison labor from nearby Livingston Parish.