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Thanks to grassroots organizing, which much of the media is ignoring, minor leaguers will now join the Major League Players Association.

As the San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil explains, “The tidal wave of commercialized mourning for the Queen prompted this poem to write itself.”

A group of Google contractors who hold college degrees, get paid as little as $40,000 a year, and don’t receive sick days voted to unionize on Tuesday.

This first novel by famed essayist Coates explores the world of slavery and abolition. The author "re-creates the world of the pre-Civil War South," says reviewer Fear, "with a journalist’s eye and ear for detail."

While politicians attempt to form a new government, the wider issues that really matter to Palestinians are being ignored

The norteño music legends honor the inmates they play for and the struggles they face.

DHS says it marks the end of “catch and release.”

A former health insurance executive says the moment the insurance industry fears most has arrived.

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