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The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA

Health care workers of color are twice as likely as their white co-workers to catch COVID-19. Unions could be the answer to addressing these disparities.

The grand art museum can serve as a productive source of instruction and insight into the history of colonialism, and the resistance to it, if you know how to look. This book can serve as a useful guide.

A Hong Kong union organizer speaks, shaky times for Nepal Communists, the political plot thickens in India, and more reports from Asia and hot spots worldwide

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and some of his organization’s largest affiliate unions are getting behind Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. But others are pushing Michigan Rep. Andy Levin, a former Service Employees International Union organizer.

Austerity in response to these circumstances can only make conditions worse. Cuts in government spending at the same time as unemployment and threats of eviction hang over many heads is a recipe for deep recession.

Activists say the key was actually talking about working-class issues.

For several reasons, the left is an indispensable component of the Democratic coalition. For one thing, contrary to centrists’ claims, progressive policies like free health insurance, green energy, and a $15 minimum wage are broadly popular.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer explains what Democrats need to do to rebuild rural communities and regain the ground they’ve lost.

Traversing the rise of second-wave feminism, Catherine Dwyer’s documentary is an important contribution to an overlooked past