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Food as Medicine is an emerging concept and the focus of the Food as Medicine Policy Summit; and a range of food companies are ready and waiting with products to make the market.

Dan DiMaggio reviews the major contract expirations coming up in 2024, including 30,000 Boeing workers and 32,000 AT&T workers. Will we see more big strikes?

Faced with China’s rise, Western states are turning from free trade dogmas to active industrial policies. This turn may offer opportunities for labor — but as the electric auto industry shows, it is also producing a harmful logic of national rivalri

No ordinary cop show, The Shield starred the LAPD’s corrupt anti-gang unit, which itself functioned and behaved like a gang. The show vividly captured the failures of American policing that would animate the George Floyd protests 20 years later.

"This complaint is the latest confirmation of Starbucks' determination to illegally oppose workers' organizing," said one unionized employee.

Our poet Cassandra Bousquet pleads for the shrinking opportunities before us, reminding us that “the edge is not the end”—yet!

They are reporting under unimaginable difficulties and being killed in record numbers. The journalistic community should be honoring them every day.

Putting creative housing demands on the bargaining table and engaging in public campaigns for tenant protections are essential first steps for all unions that can bargain on the offensive as they gain power.

When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the U. S. would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.

“There are Americans sleeping all over the streets in urban America,” Samuelsen says. “People have jobs and can’t afford homes. Never in my life have I seen a situation where America’s cities have looked like this."