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As millions of people have lost their sense of smell to COVID-19, anthropologists are investigating the surprising significance of this underrated sense.

Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.

Concerns that "other" groups were demographically outpacing white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant women spurred efforts to limit the bodily autonomy of white women and limit access to contraception in order to force them to have children.

For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.

War, Inflation, Geopolitical Rivalry, and Soaring World Temperatures

Canada’s Starbucks organizing wave is moving eastward from British Columbia, with a store in Alberta going union earlier this month. Poetically, the Starbucks union win is on anti-labor Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s home turf.

The new FX series "The Bear" fictionalizes trying to turn around a failing Chicago sandwich shop, and how chef egos (always) come into play

The Los Angeles Black Worker Center was founded seven years ago to increase access to quality jobs for African-Americans. Rather than focusing solely on job training, the Center is working to connect people with actual jobs through programs like the LA Local Hire program.

As California stands at the height of the worst housing crisis the state has ever seen, hundreds of tenants across multiple cities are taking matters into their own hands by confronting corporate landlords to demand a freeze on rent increases. The tenants and organizations leading this are part of a new, broad-based coalition, Housing Now!, to fight for the repeal of the statewide restrictions on rent control - established by the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act.

Contrary to the rhetoric dominating the news cycle right now, trans liberation doesn't look like gender non-conforming bodies in military uniforms killing civilians overseas. It doesn't include rallying for entrenchment into the military-industrial complex that furthers the imperialist aims of the United States, or assimilating in hopes that a country that has never cared for trans lives will begin to.