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The US, which has been teetering on the edge of a cliff for some time, is now starting to tip into an abyss of "minority rule medievalism.”

Nearly 6,000 union hotel workers in Hawaii are now working without a contract. UNITE HERE! Local 5 wants the hotels to bring back services and staff to pre-pandemic levels.

When King George visited Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939, the White House lunch included hot dogs. It kickstarted an enduring tactic of American international relations: hot-dog diplomacy. The King asked for seconds, accompanied by beer.

Our most fundamental rights are being trampled by a tyrannical, unaccountable, and unelected force.

You can take away a right through legal means, but it is harder to take away the belief in that right. The uproar over the court’s hideous abortion decision is a reminder of how unpopular it is.

Frederick Douglass gave this speech in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852. Some now give this speech the title, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

The gene-editing technology has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and agriculture — and raised profound ethical questions about altering human DNA.

Unemployment, Amazon, Detroit, Bank of America, the elite, Chicago Teachers, March on Washington

In May, Ines Abdel-Dayem was fired from the Cairo Opera's chair; in July she was offered ministerial post which she turned down. Today, reinstated to the opera, she shares her thoughts about past months and reveals dynamic plans

The Dream Defenders have scored a number of victories since initiating their #TakeoverFL sit-in.