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Many workers with COVID-19 still—still!—can’t afford to isolate, because they don’t have paid sick leave.

He was always proud of his humble working-class roots

This too-little-knows treatise by Martin Luther King Jr.'s favorite teacher was written in Germany, notes reviewer McManus, as the Nazis were transitioning "from a threatening political movement to a lethal political dictatorship."

Journalists are responding to consolidation and ongoing revenue challenges by joining the unionization wave.

Focus on national politics in Brazil, Chile, France, Honduras, Libya and Turkey, and saving the planet

Today's labor upsurge could simply evaporate, but it's also possible that we're at the dawn of a new era, one in which the working underclass is drawn, like the industrial workers of the 1930s, into the mainstream and the labor movement is empowered.

The former criminal prosecution team investigating the Flint water crisis was building a racketeering case against state officials. Then the team was dismantled.

Manchin abandoned single parents, unable to afford child care, to poverty. He threw seniors, struggling to pay for prescriptions and health care, under the bus.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a racially integrated America might still be far off. But some cities are finally atoning for past racial sins and enacting policies to dismantle segregation

Releasing the carbon stored in vulnerable ecosystems could push global warming past 1.5 degrees Celsius