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The Trump administration is intensifying its regime change efforts to potentially include torpedoing Venezuela's presidential election.

Stagnant wages, slow growth and high unemployment delivered the election’s populist uprising

West Virginia shows that we can fight back and win. We talk to two teachers to assess the tentative settlement and what comes next.

FCC snafu; Net fight goes on; Targeting telecoms; Who uses what; Dog bites man; Great firewall

Professor responsible for concept spotlighted in McDormand’s acceptance speech tells the Guardian how it can boost diversity.

We must get the language right. In reality, this was a strike and movement organized outside the union apparatus. This strike took shape as it did because the existing unions had neither the credibility nor legal authority to represent the workers.  West Virginia teachers and school workers have no collective bargaining, nor the right to strike.

A longstanding humanitarian deal protected many from deportation – but a change in practice under Trump has torn families apart.

The recently published Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (“PURE”) study made headlines about the conventional wisdom on fats and carbs, but several methodological problems cast doubt on its conclusions.

Both parties line their pockets with profits from the arms trade.

Back in September, the International Association of Machinists and United Steelworkers ended their labor-management partnership with Harley-Davidson over the company’s plan to build a plant in Thailand. The partnership agreement, two decades old and praised as a model by some, is the latest iteration of the ‘jointness’ trend first pioneered by UAW and General Motors in the 1980s.