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The president on Wednesday will also announce relocating the U.S. Embassy, a move that could undermine peace efforts.

"Workers who work in the gig economy are making money but missing out on other standard benefits of having jobs: health care primarily but also paid sick leave and worker's compensation," says Jessica Martinez, co-executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health. "It's essentially the Tinder economy. When a temp worker is done with his or her shift, the boss swipes left and claims to have no further obligation."

Two new books shed light on the sustained union-busting campaigns that bookended that all-too brief period of labor-management détente. Chad Pearson’s Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement, and Lane Windham's Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970’s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide.

The criminalization of drug use was and still is an easy excuse to surveil and control populations.

All national police will refuse to enforce a curfew after days of deadly violence triggered by allegations of electoral fraud.

Rotten to the core; Funding the stung stingers; Texas style; Prairie homeless; The new Puerto Rican exodus; #MeToo strategically

The camera, just by its presence, altered human behavior. The motion picture camera changed the nature of acting. Among other things, it created that apparent oxymoron, the non-actor, the subject of an unusually rich and stimulating series now at the Film Society of Lincoln Center entitled "The Non-Actor".

New York State's nurses union has historically been a low-key, apolitical group that steered clear of most controversy.

Could a negotiated settlement between the United States and Iran could trigger yet another war in the Middle East? Two views.