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On February 22, the same day that West Virginia teachers began their walkout, more than 40,000 lecturers, researchers, technical and academic-related staff went on strike at 61 British universities. Three other universities joined them the following week.

An environmental activist and young black mother in Detroit may be forced to give birth behind bars, after standing her ground during a frightening encounter.

If progressive political parties had pursued a bolder agenda in the face of widening inequality and deepening economic anxiety, perhaps the rise of right-wing, nativist political movements might have been averted. So why didn't they?

In Salinas on April 8, over a thousand farm workers and allies filled the streets of its working-class barrio to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

A "computer" used to be a job description, not just a machine. At the time, most computers were women. Dylan Schleicher reviews a fascinating history of how "computers" helped make the computer networks that are so interwoven into contemporary life.

The new law increases access to and protects union membership in New York’s public-sector workplaces in anticipation of an adverse ruling in the pending Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME.

Communities in Colorado—one of the fastest-warming states—have joined coastal cities in trying to make Big Oil pay.

The tax legislation passed last year gives the financial industry plenty of reasons to celebrate.

The April 27 summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is scheduled to take place in the border village of Panmunjom

Media monopolization in a nutshell; Zuckerberg’s forked tongue; Fighting the strip mining of journalism; How old? That old; Privacy Badger; Righter than right