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There is still more evidence that women, ascendant in politics & the workplace, are scoring important economic wins

Humphreys County, Mississippi -- an odd place for the IRS to hunt tax cheats. A rural county in the Mississippi Delta known for catfish farms, more than a third of its mostly African American residents are below the poverty line

Building a single-payer system is hard, but not impossible. Just ask Saskatchewan.

NCAA athletes should be allowed to unionize their teams and fight for their own rights.

At its best, crime drama does not simply try to terrify us with pure unblinking evil but gives us studies of dysfunctional human beings mangled by capitalism, argues Sofie Mason

Support is growing for a referendum on whether to ban large landlords from the German capital and turn their property into social housing stock.

A strategic focus on uniting the working class doesn’t mean marginalizing the struggle against racism and sexism.

The three-year tentative contract agreement ensures pay hikes, cheaper health care and other financial gains for the workers represented by the UIC Graduate Employees Organization.

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists—and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

“The president will have to face the reality that Congress is no longer going to ignore its constitutional obligations when it comes to foreign policy,” said Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.