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The survey was conducted by Railroad Workers United, an umbrella organization that stretches across the freight rail industry’s multiple unions, 13 of which are involved in contract talks with most of the nation’s largest freight rail carriers.

This Labor Day, the poet A.D. Winans pays tribute to the workers of the world.

Skyrocketing animal diversity a half-billion years ago was linked to spikes and dips in marine oxygen levels, according to a detailed geological study.

After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change.

Bolton is an old hand at using allegedly damning intelligence on Iran to advance a plan of aggressive U.S. war.

Can the Vermont senator win over Trump voters and harness his grassroots army to transform the Democratic Party?

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers unveiled a new endorsement process for the 2020 presidential race, shifting influence from its top brass to state union leaders and the rank and file.

You can't stop empathy, compassion, generosity, and heroism. Even on HBO's notoriously violent and cynical hit series!