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The Covid-19 pandemic undercut feelings of job security at cultural institutions. Now there’s an uptick in efforts to organize.

As landlords refuse federal pandemic rental assistance, some places are simply cutting them out of the process.

Internal papers show firm is lying about making progress against hate, violence and misinformation, ex-employee says

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

A massive data leak includes explosive revelations about the hidden wealth system, including the U.S. role as a magnet for kleptocratic funds.

New spyware to worry about, Ozy Media collapses, and some democratic solutions to the corporate stranglehold on media

Many Latinx are aware that parts of the United States today were originally part of Mexico. But in addition to the loss of these lands, many Mexican Americans experienced the loss of their culture through the "Americanzition" process.

There is nothing new about Northern factories moving to the south for lower labor costs, but starting in the 1960s, higher value manufacturing made the shift and had a more profound impact on the economy, reducing the economic divide. Meanwhile, the political divide between North and South has deepened, and the South has attempted to impose on the rest of the nation its opposition to worker and minority rightst-hrough the vehicle of a Southernized Republican Party.