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Some Instacart and Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job to demand greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are speed-hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders.

The case has never been clearer for a transition to Medicare for All, but its achievement clashes with the Democratic Party’s decades-long hostility to funding the social-welfare state.

This crisis calls for us to challenge the government system that is failing us. Now is an opportunity for radical collective action.

This op-ed argues that people swooning over the New York governor's steady hand during the coronavirus crisis should look at his record in office.

Even social distancing sparks a culture war. Even Britney gets woke. And more revelations

"Cuba's Cancer Hope" is a new documentary on the two countries' research into a lung cancer vaccine and proves that no political feud can "block" progress.

Even though the economy is adding more jobs, there's increasing evidence that many of those new positions don't offer the kind of wages and benefits required to get ahead. Americans are working but aren't earning enough to gain economic stability.

Struggling for decades to find its voice, the Iraqi Communist Party is helping shape the battle for the nation's soul

This is a period when on certain issues, massive, non-violent direct action is in order, as the demonstration in Seattle shows.

After Rep. Greg Walden, the biggest recipient of pharmaceutical campaign cash in the last election cycle, met with Trump, the president decided to scrap his support for lower drug prices.