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The debate over climate crisis, and more news and analysis from the Mideast, Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America

Employers are alleged to be leveraging coronavirus-induced unemployment to mount an assault on collective bargaining.

Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020), a Review by Lola Loustaunau

Hank Aaron will be remembered for his astonishing achievements as one of the all-time great baseball players, not least because he broke Babe Ruth’s home run record. But Aaron also ceaselessly fought to defend black people in a hostile racist society

Twitter canceling Trump’s account shows that real political power in the United States shifted from government to corporations.

Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront.

The Capitol rampage turns the media world upside down

Based on the bestselling novel, Netflix’s The White Tiger is a wry, blistering critique of inequality in India — and elsewhere.

Rather than looking at abortion as a personal, private decision and defending it on that basis, we should expose how the power structure is using restrictions on abortion and birth control to extract our unpaid labor.

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