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In a display of worker militancy not seen in Hollywood for decades, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are about to vote on whether 60,000 of them will go on strike in October.

As he extends Trump-era policies, President Biden discovers that many voters are no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I am forty-two years old. The struggle to end HIV/AIDS pretty much spans my entire life. This year, in fact, marks forty years since the first case was reported in the United States on June 5, 1981.

A decade ago, a grassroots anticapitalist movement burst on the scene, galvanizing people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and many others, but how much did it change the world?

Some say the media ignores an epidemic of missing and murdered Native American women.

A review of Claude McKay's "Romance in Marseille"

Massive new projects have had significant benefits, but, in many cases, they have also divided existing communities, often in ways that exacerbated racial and class inequities.

Mexico's midterm elections reflected left-wing president AMLO's high personal approval ratings — but also brought setbacks for his Morena party. For enduring social change, Morena has to build a member-led organization rooted in local communities.

Homicides were up across the US in 2020 and appeared to be primarily driven by rising gun violence, but other crimes fell

Economists are grappling with how much to blame bias or a changing economy for the widening wage gap over the last 40 years.