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Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus

Trump will reportedly invoke the Defense Production Act to declare the meat-packing plants “critical infrastructure.”

Amid this crisis, a small army of right-wing think tanks and conservative organizations is cynically invoking the plight of the downtrodden to make the case for swiftly reopening the economy and sending workers into deadly conditions.

The president’s judicial appointments have been a quieter project than most of his flamboyant presidency, but will have longer-lasting impacts on healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice and the climate

The still-raging pandemic is forcing dramatic shifts in the way we consume energy -- and many changes may persist.

A new documentary series uses individual cases of false convictions to reveal a terrifyingly unreliable criminal justice system.

New meanings for "going viral", including the lockdown showdown, a national rent strike, and a rant you have to experience!

There is a new ménage-à-quatre in the region, bringing Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the United States ever closer. And...an unexpected fifth player lurking in the shadows: Russia.

While much has changed in the 40 years that Rhiannon Giddens has been alive, her latest album, Freedom Highway, is a powerful testament to the inequality and injustice that remain. Other songs span various aspects of African American history.

It’s a once-in-a-blue-moon event for the Working Families Party to tell voters to stay away from our ballot line. But when Joe Lieberman is making an argument for voting on the WFP line, something is very fishy. So how’d we end up here?