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Legislation under consideration in New York Massachusetts and other states look like they might offer gig workers some benefits in terms of limited bargaining rights, but they would come at a high cost.

There’s a new union in town: the Producers Union, which is the first all-new Hollywood labor union to be formed in decades.

The stand-up and SNL writer takes on one of the least diverse genres of entertainment with the aim to drink, have a good group hang and provoke discomfort

Last summer, 525 security researchers spent three months trying to hack our Morpheus processor as well as others. All attempts against Morpheus failed.

The new cold war resounds with echoes of the old one, including geopolitical maneuvering and proprietary competition over technological innovations.

When reality does not correspond to the facts on the ground, the U.S. left often responds like the fictional French intellectual who maunders: “I know what you are saying is true in fact, the question is—‘is it true in theory?’”

How words like ‘apartheid,’ ‘land theft,’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ have entered the mainstream conversation

The slow, decades-long destruction of the US unemployment insurance system has resulted in more than just personal hardship for millions of workers — it has further weakened the fighting strength of the whole working class.

John Coltrane learned his trade with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk - and eventually outshone them all. John Fordham celebrates the great saxophonist.

The unresolved, discordant elements make this album truly timeless – that, and the fact that too few of its concerns have been addressed since 1971.