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The joys and horrors of social media... Organizing protest! Surveillance stalkerware! And more

John Lewis declares that, during the 1960s, he was arrested “a few times.” Then the elder statesman and éminence grise of the civil rights movement pauses before correcting himself in front of the large Dallas crowd he’s addressing: “40 times…"

Chance Zombor, a grievance representative at Briggs & Stratton in Wisconsin, challenges the resistance to recognizing Black worker activity as class struggle.

Robbing workers’ pension funds has long been central to Wall Street's business model. A recent Supreme Court ruling opened the door for financial managers to take their looting of those pension funds even further.

Recent Black Lives Matter protests have sparked conversations about how to act in better solidarity with the Black struggle. How to move beyond rhetorical statements? How to address anti-Blackness among non-Black Arab communities?

What, then, has been the actual influence of the military veterans now in Congress on this country's war policy?

Harry Burt became the frst ice cream vendor to move from pushcart to truck, a move that changed how countless Americans eat—and how they experience summer.

The United States backs anti-narcotics operations as Colombia’s military faces a storm of criticism.

A briefing packet for federal emergency response teams details the steps schools should take to reopen safely.

Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr.