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Up to 60,000 behind-the-scenes IATSE workers had been set to strike from Monday over claims of excessive hours and unliveable wages

Mask or No Mask, Boston poet Paul Hostovsky captures a simple aesthetic of these divided times.

A long forgotten if seminal early Richard Wright novel is brought back to life by Library of America for a new generation of readers.

While China is often seen as an outlier from neoliberal trends, its transformation in recent decades was not at odds with tectonic shifts in the global system of growth but an essential part of it.

In this illuminating and moving documentary, seven-year-old Sasha questions her gender – and challenges prejudice.

The antitrust researcher Moe Tkacik discusses New York’s new laws and the future of DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats.“It’s conventional wisdom now that these companies are bloodsucking middlemen,” says Tkacik.

The new series, Y: The Last Man, airing on Hulu, is trying to make the very 2002 premise of the comic it’s based on work in 2021.

Carolina poet Dan Albergotti places “American Exceptionalism” in a disturbing historical context.

A classic text’s reissue charts a key British feminist rebel’s life and work from her organizing immigrant and working women in London’s East End and building the emerging British labor movement to her revolutionary politics and her anti-fascism.

This book studies how the Communist Party worked in post World War II Detroit, writes reviewer Johnson, "to effectuate social, economic, and political change in the city in this period."