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New York Times Co. technology employees plan to walk off the job Wednesday over what they say are the newspaper publisher’s illegal efforts to stymie their unionization campaign.

Measures like those France and New York City recently instituted are an appropriate tool for preventing impending and devastating mass death.

The U.S. attacks will not stop the Taliban or end the war.

The structure of state government, with its centralized power and few ethical checks, invites scandal after scandal.

"In their assault on public education, the network has taken actions to increasingly privatize and corporatize K-12 institutions."

This new selection should help broaden reader interest in the work of this socially conscious poet.

The earth is a hot spot! News and analysis from Africa, Asia and Latin America

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...