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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

Marking a major step to change the agency's direction, the National Labor Relations Board's new acting general counsel withdrew 10 of his predecessor’s key anti-labor policy memos.

The escalation from rhetoric to violence was all too familiar for reproductive justice advocates.

The corporate assault on democracy hasn't been as violent as the pro-Trump mob who stormed the Capitol. And it's entirely legal. But it's arguably more damaging over the long term.

Gig economy companies and organized labor are at war over the future of work and the definition of “employee.” Proposition 22 in California is the model of such third-category legislation, which excludes Gig workers from basic labor rights.

The pandemic and its mishandling are upending decades of economic orthodoxy in the US and across the West

Fascism, conspiracy theories, the GOP, theocracy, white nationalism, loneliness, burnout, and other fun stuff

One Night in Miami is incisive about the pressures of Black celebrity, and its central dialogue circles the question of what its characters—all icons in their own right—owe to both the Black community at large and a nascent civil rights movement.

This examination of how the digital world portrays food directly, represents people engaged in all aspects of food, and affects the politics and economics of the food world, foreshadows some of the directions the larger world of food is taking.