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Thousands of municipal workers have won the right to form unions, but a new collective bargaining law stops short of allowing them to strike and the number of public employees now eligible to join a union falls well below what unions ultimately seek.

France Insoumise wants to change the face of parliament — including by turning hotel cleaners and bus drivers into MPs. Building a left rooted in the working class also means ensuring our parties aren’t just represented by professional politicians.

"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."

Time for a new movement to stop the nuclear arms race.

Years before the climate crisis was part of national discourse, this memo to the president predicted catastrophe

David Cronenberg’s latest film, Crimes of the Future, is a return to the “body horror” genre. It brings back the gross-out gore that first made his career in the 1970s — but without the thrills.

Right-wing media in lockstep with Trump’s coup, and more

If fetuses are thought to have basic rights as persons do, then a future ruling might reach beyond overturning Roe. It might hold that it is unconstitutional for any state to allow abortions at all.

Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilization is at stake

“The problem with charter schools isn’t that they’re competing with public schools; it’s that they’re supplanting public schools.”