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Sexual harassment and sexual assault is a serious issue for hotel workers, who are vulnerable not only to co-workers and management but also to hotel guests. Union workers from across the globe gathered in Geneva to demand change.

Two books posit the BDS movement fighting Israeli aggression against Palestinians as the worthy extension of more than a century of opposition to white supremacy, colonialism, and the kindred pariah status Jews suffered under European fascism.

Court-packing! Puerto Rican statehood! Votes for felons! Why—and how—the next Democratic majority should play dirty.

This new volume surveys the changes in U.S. foreign policy as successive governments have downplayed diplomacy. The book is based on first-hand reporting by a prize-winning journalist of conversations with diplomats and others.

“We know that ICE’s actions are inhumane, almost incomprehensible."

The pitfalls of patriotism are everywhere, and at some point those hazards must be honestly faced.

There is not enough space to catalogue all the crimes committed collectively by western countries that now feel besieged by migrants of color.

Mainstream feminists never quite knew what to do with the welfare rights movement. Here was a group of mothers who, rather than wanting equal work and equal pay, demanded that the government support them while they stayed home and raised their kids.

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Today, she says, roadsides are dotted with “for sale” signs. Farms sit vacant, their owners having relocated to urban areas in search of work.Once-pristine barns have become dilapidated after years of low prices left farmers without money for repairs