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The new documentary "Aftershock" tells the stories of two young women who suffered preventable deaths, and of the activists working to protect Black mothers.

Baristas nationwide are remarkably organized. Is the company’s C.E.O., Howard Schultz, using firings, store closures, and legal delays to thwart them?

Lucas Kunce, a candidate in Tuesday’s Senate primary, is running an anti-corporate campaign.

“I think that Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan will certainly contribute to the deterioration of US-China relations,” said Philip Thai, an associate professor of history and Asian studies at Northeastern University.

Mike Davis is still a damn good storyteller.

A newly organized reform movement turned the convention into a rowdy debate that, for moments, even overruled the top union leaders. Again and again, members of the Unite All Workers for Democracy reform caucus (UAWD) and other delegates gathered the numbers to put their issues on the convention floor.

Anti-abortion rights legislators have a money trail

By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S. and U.K. wrote an American Psychological Association white paper warning about the risk of coercion.

These restrictions have already cost many thousands of people their health coverage and access to care and could harm millions more.

Excerpt from Flint Taylor's new book "The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago"