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Objectivity may be tricky; fairness in reporting is not. The book author blasts the media for using a rhetoric of neutrality to marginalize insurgent POVs. Truth may be contingent on time and place, but leading news venues only serve power.

In its first week, the strike drew support from colleagues in the labor movement. Some deliveries of supplies were halted when UPS workers refused to cross the picket line. Construction workers at Harvard Medical School stopped working on a facade.

The FX network TV drama, Pose, dramatizes New York City's 1980-1990s black and Latino LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming ballroom culture scene. This book, on the ballroom culture in Detroit, describes a community of affirmation and resistance.

Protesters with Fridays for Future demand world leaders at the global climate summit urgently address the planetary emergency.

"Once again, it's the mismatch between the debt and the borrower's income, their ability to repay."

There was a time in America when being called a socialist could end a political career. Not anymore.

The Appellate Body’s paralysis risks creating a system of economic relations based on power rather than rules.

COP25 / UK Election / Palestine / France / Uruguay / Iraq / Colombia / India

From basic safety issues like nonslip mats in the kitchen to better salaries and benefits, the fight to create a more just industry ramped up this year.

Some of the findings were already known. But they are sure to fuel a debate over when, and how, to end the American-led war.