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Political economy and new maps of power in 2022

Striking nurses in the Stanford health care system Palo Alto, Calif., are seeking pay raises, along with bonuses and mental support.

The strategic goal of "weakening Russia" is playing with fire—even nuclear fire—and to allow the war to go on indefinitely, or to escalate, at the expense of the Ukrainian people is cruel, dangerous, and unacceptable.

Review of Maha Hilal’s “Innocent Until Proven Muslim." The author lays bare the War on Terror’s toll on constitutional rights and marginalized communities.

How holding out for the common good led to the longest strike of 2021

With a new federal indictment, the United States is finally turning on a former political ally, acknowledging that Juan Orlando Hernández’s ran a narco state. What took so long?

Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film, "Happening", captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalization of abortion in provincial France.

States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work

Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement. The vote was 14-0.

The package, negotiated by the Democrats - Gov. Kathy Hochul, and have super-majorities in the two houses of the Legislature, includes massive education aid to localities, significant increases in funding for child care and public universities....