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More than 2,900 US healthcare workers have died in the Covid-19 pandemic since March, a far higher number than that reported by the government, according to a new analysis by the Guardian and KHN.

"Unlike Betsy DeVos, Secretary-designate Cardona will ensure that the federal government's role in education is to ensure access and opportunity for every student."

While Trump's coup attempt flounders, Bolivia's 2019 right-wing coup succeeded with support from the U.S. and the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) until it was overturned in last month's election.

Joe Biden to be lobbied to reverse decision to pardon security guards jailed over massacre

To allow millions of workers in the arts to end up jobless – and permit the breakdown of the institutional infrastructure that makes the performance and showcasing of art possible— would leave this country culturally impoverished for years to come.

Here is a fine tribute to di Prima, who died October 25. She was 86 years old. She was an outstanding figure in mid-to-late 20th Century rebel culture in the United States and was one of that culture's most important poets.

The Arab revolution, South African nation-building, peasants unite in India, Amazon workers strike, and much more

As the year comes to a close, take a look back to one of the most surprising and exciting labor uprisings of 2018.

In the twenty-first-century version of war American-style, other ships have become the very image and essence of hardship and harm in ways that violate the most basic tenets of democracy and justice.

The modest sentence reductions in the bill are so narrow that veteran reform advocates say the long-term, harmful provisions of the legislation — including its reliance on racist risk assessment mechanisms and expansion of electronic monitoring...