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As IATSE members decide how to vote on a proposed contract a horrific accident highlights the issues at stake. But whatever the outcome, members appear to be emerging from the pandemic and from this contract battle with a greater sense of power.

FDA guidance for specific sodium reduction goals for the food industry is groundbreaking.

Michelle Wu's candidacy for Mayor, building on years of work by a variety of grassroots organizations, is cohering the kind of multi-racial coalition that could change the political landscape at both the city and state levels.

An interview with anthropologist Irma McClaurin dives into the process and meaning behind creating an archival home for Black feminist work.

Students at Michele Clark High were relieved to return to classes, but shootings on the West Side mean that their problems are far from over.

The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.

The annual number of denials have risen sharply. If people who are in fact disabled are too discouraged to apply or are being denied benefits, then the program is not performing the function for which it was designed.

The Arizona weirdo has compelled the Democrats to abandon taxing the rich—so they’re proposing to tax rich folks’ unearned gains.

Amazon Labor Union bids to create independent group – but workers say the company has openly opposed their effort

Dave Chappelle’s trans friend knew how to take a joke. So what?