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Taxes must be increased for the ultra-rich as a “strategic precondition to reducing inequality and resuscitating democracy,” Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International said.

Nurses at Mount Sinai South Nassau voted by a majority to join the New York State Nurses Association. The approximately 800 nurses at South Nassau represent the last non-union facility in the entire Mount Sinai health system.

“Honey Cake and Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors” was organized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. More than one survivor remembers sustaining fellow-prisoners with vivid descriptions of the foods they’d eaten in their earlier lives.

King called himself a democratic socialist. He believed that America needed a "radical redistribution of economic and political power."

A federal program of subsidized employment would empower workers, strengthen communities, and move us toward a more equitable economy for everyone.

King understood that no single approach would be sufficient to combat the interconnected evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.

How nuclear weapons gradually became a key part of international relations.

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

Monosodium glutamate is a compound molecule in which glutamate is the amino acid responsible for the mysterious deepening of flavor. Its once-vilified reputation has been ascribed to illogic, superstition and even racism.

The Israeli forces mowing down unarmed Palestinian protesters also train U.S. police forces that brutalize communities of color.