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Chávez and the UFW exposed a paradox that still affects most farmworkers. No matter how hard they work, most will never achieve the so-called American Dream as they are bound to a system of agricultural production that thrives on labor exploitation.

The tragedy of American science lies in its drive for private profit over improving the human condition, resulting in Big Science being irredeemably corrupted by Big Money, poisoning the air, the water, the food we eat, and the medicines we take.

"Israel, as an occupying power, has a responsibility to provide vaccines to the Palestinian people," the first-term congressman asserted in a letter to Israel's acting consul general.

We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.

Government needs to restore the competence of public systems and not wait for crises.

Movement to unionize workers in Alabama faces tough opposition as the retail giant launches aggressive anti-union drive.

Six workers were killed in a chicken plant in Gainesville, Ga. The community is demanding answers.

As this book shows, writes reviewer Rosen, “the slave trade persisted in New York in the decades before the Civil War because the city was the capital of the Southern slave economy.”

New year, new realities in Russia, China, Cuba and Vietnam