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Netflix's four-part series puts guessing games aside and instead tells a dark, timely, conversation-starting story.

For the 12 million workers in U.S. manufacturing, the question is whether it is possible, under this administration and in this moment of twenty-first-century capitalism, to create a pro-worker, pro-union trade policy.

The president’s cruel, reckless plan to speed up slaughterhouse lines, explained in one chart.

As she travels across America, poet Marsha de la O asks her country, "Who is lost, and who isn't?"

In 2023, a permanent memorial at the site of the fire was unveiled in memory of the workers. The memorial tells the stories of the victims and is a landmark site to visit, mourn, and learn at the very site where factory workers labored and perished.

"The principal virtue of the book," writes reviewer Koppelman, "is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions."

As it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump presidency means, America's labor movement has positioned itself as democracy's strongest, most important and best-organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda.

“This is a way to defund Black people as a whole," retired federal worker Janice Lee said, referring to the layoffs of black government workers.

Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.

The riskiest course is to stay the course.