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The plight of the Afghan people was crucial for pundits and journalists — as long as they had a war to defend. Now that US troops are gone, Joe Biden's sanctions are causing starvation and suffering — and the media has been astonishingly silent.

In America today, if you poison and kill hundreds of thousands of people so you can take home a multi-million-dollar paycheck, you get to buy a new yacht.

In his lifetime, Robert Welch toiled in the mocked and marginal fringe. Today his ideas are the mainstream of the American right.

Employees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago have voted to unionize, a day after museum staffers affiliated with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Upheaval in Kazakhstan, strikers demand nationalization in South Africa, and more news and analysis from four continents

Since the initial victory in Buffalo, workers at several other Starbucks stores throughout the country have filed for union elections, including in Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Knoxville, Tenn.

The most promising course of action for human survival might well lie in a mobilization to compel the nuclear nations to accept the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to accept a restrained role in a cooperatively-governed world.

It is a disgraceful legacy that we cannot afford to pass on to future generations.

Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.

Three lessons from the 301-day nurses' strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester