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Understanding how human behaviors affect the spread and virulence of a disease can inform preparations for the future.

The biggest city in the US is joining a voting reform movement.

A GOP incumbent governor won’t admit defeat. Elsewhere, new voting systems underperform.

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

Will the US and the Organization of American States once again be able to overturn election results?

AFA’s new drive is separate from a preexisting one organized by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. IAM has been organizing Delta flight attendants and ramp attendants since 2010, the year of AFA’s last loss.

Kat Candler will write the Texas-set project about a woman who leads the state's biggest strike.

The Reaper has been busy in 2016, Prince is dead at 57 years old and only recently on the road doing a well-received solo piano tour. Looking back at nearly four decades of hybridizing rock, funk and dance music, there can be no doubt that the man was a pioneer, sonically, aesthetically and as an artist who stood up and fought back against a music industry that alienated his labour.

Workers in Massachusetts and California had challenged their designation as 'independent contractors'

The progressive movement that supported Sanders existed before his campaign and will continue after it. But Sanders has expanded it and unified it in a way that creates the potential for a powerful post-election force in politics if it can retain at least some cohesion.