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Americans are again being warned daily of the Russian menace, with persistent accusations of Russian aggression, lies, violations of international law, and cyberattacks on U.S. elections, as reported in leading liberal outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post.

The Olympics are coming back to Los Angeles. But the games are notoriously bad news for poor people in host cities.

The closure of two labor and delivery wards in D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods presents a challenge for communities with already alarmingly high maternal and infant mortality rates.

Access to the courts is now barred for more than 60 million American workers

Recently, Chicago city council member Carlos Rosa's socialist politics cost him in the halls of power. He speaks to Jacobin about why he refuses to "throw a movement under the bus."

Modelling suggests that plate tectonics and the Earth’s magnetic field were the result of massive collisions during the “geologic dark age”.

The new Star Trek spin-off passes the Bechdel test under a minute into the series premiere.

Given the public sector is the largest employer of African-Americans, and recognizing their substantial and traditional involvement in unions — Black workers are more likely to belong to a union than any other racial group — such anti-union campaigns as Right to Work have particular implications for African-Americans.

The plan would also raise taxes for many middle class families, a fact Americans for Tax Fairness denounced as "absolutely outrageous"

What has remained is the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) position that Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects workers’ substantive rights to join together in class actions.