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The world economy, to the degree it still works at all, serves to benefit the few at the expense of the many. The author of the book under review does an economic deep dive into ways that can reverse that antidemocratic equation.

Workers who encounter something that is an immediate threat to health and safety have few good choices for action.

The 1959 revolution launched a project of social justice and equity, an event that would change policies regarding gender and sexualities, among profound, radical transformations in the nation and its culture

"We will use every tool in our arsenal to block efforts aimed at discouraging participation by eligible voters this election season."

Congress boosted unemployment benefits. Now the challenge lies in getting them out to the unemployed, through underfunded state-level programs.

Just as in the Great Recession, a steep downturn in the private sector is poised to cause big job losses in state and local governments.

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his considerable skills to bear in this novel about a pandemic, written before our current crisis erupted.

Parties and movement groups, Cuba and Vietnam, and African scholar activists face the Corona crisis

No Evil Foods created products like El Zapatista and Comrade Cluck, but workers say its conduct doesn’t live up to its leftist branding.

Society relies on the unpaid, invisible work of parents—mostly mothers—to care for children and to buffer kids from trauma and stress. Supporting that work during COVID-19 requires direct cash support to families.