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BlacKkKlansman is a furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth. It’s an alarm clock ringing in the midst of a historical nightmare, and also a symphony, the rare piece of political popular art that works in all three dimensions.

Strikes have become a much weaker tool for unions, while management continues to lock out workers as a way to call the shots at the bargaining table.

One couple wants to take advantage of the state’s cottage food law by selling pickled beets, carrots, and other vegetables they grow in their market garden. But the Texas health department says that’s only legal if they want to sell pickled cucumbers

A rarely used U.S. government data set shows that the rate of all private sector strikes arising from union contract negotiations has declined by over 60% since the 1990s.

An actor who reportedly asked to leave The Affair may have been written off the show over pay issues.

The Trump administration already has been slowly dismantling worker protections, especially those enacted under the Obama administration.

The great mystery to me, is why the play was a failure. Originally it ran for only 3 days, and then closed. Hellman was responding to an all-too-common ethical dilemma that persists down to today. Her own sympathies lay with the striking workers.

The difference between these two systems of labor relations shows up in the different weight given to individual rights, such as freedom of speech, and collective rights, such as freedom of association.

California poet Lee Rossi explores the impact of toppling old heroes, their myths, their monuments, their wrongs.

A pungent and exhaustive evaluation of the short-lived, pre-war popular front government of France, written on the heels of its demise by the brilliant French writer Simone Weil, with an introduction by the NLR editors.