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The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract.

Butterball's Turkey Hot Line was started in 1981 with 6 operators; today's operators number over 50 and answer 10,000 calls on Thanksgiving.

As Narcos: Mexico begins taking over your Netflix homepage, Luna spoke with The Globe and Mail’s Barry Hertz about criminalization and representation.

The military is leaving the southern border, and the caravan hasn’t even arrived yet.

A landmark study finds that most Americans do not fit neatly into the ideological camps on the right or the left.

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?

Going forward, American exports and supply chains could be disrupted, agricultural yields could fall to 1980s levels by midcentury and fire season could spread to the Southeast, the report finds.

Gamification is the use of game elements in non-game contexts. Incentivizing workers based on individual competition and bonuses isn’t new, but when Sarah Mason became a Lyft driver she found the gig economy had taken gamification to another level.

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Any amateur politician can engage in lying. Trump is engaging in “post-truth.” Ideology takes precedence over reality.