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Organized labor had a good day at the polls Tuesday in Illinois and across the Midwest.

“Boy Erased,” adapted from Garrard Conley’s memoir of the same title, tackles the subject of conversion therapy, a technique that is a mix of religious dogma and dubious science whose cruelty and ineffectiveness are amply documented.

The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.

Judy Chicago’s “A Dinner Party” inspired a meal at the Museum of Food and Drink, in Brooklyn, honoring four women out of the thirty-nine in Chicago’s work. The trickiest part proved to be finding recipes from the relevant eras.

What are the checks and balances for Big Tech? What forces and people can keep them honest? The obvious answer is: their employees.

A company is nothing without its workers. From the moment we start at Google we’re told that we aren’t just employees; we’re owners. Every person who walked out today is an owner, and the owners say: Time’s up.

It would take just over a year, it would turn out, for the absurdity of Megyn Kelly Today’s founding proposition to come to its full fruition.

Chicago Teachers Just Voted 98% to Authorize the First Charter School Strike in U.S. History

New Mexico poet Beate Sigriddaughter laments the absurdities of war, killing in the cause of “righteous dreams.”

Focusing on Ford Motor Co.’s rise, the author posits a connect between racial practices in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa and Ford’s divisive labor processes, seeing racism as an essential element in the creation of global capitalism.