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As war returns to eastern Europe, the Croatian-born poet Mirna Hirschl depicts a personal sorrow.

The picture that emerged from yesterday's hearing is not dramatically different from what we've learned before — an unhinged man willing to do anything to maintain power, even at the cost of lives, law, and our democracy.

When it comes to wages, baseball’s billionaires give stadium workers peanuts. Yet since 2011, the teams’ average value has tripled — from $523 million ($680 million in today’s dollars) to $2.1 billion.

A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.

With over 200,000 children experiencing the loss of a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators are becoming grief counselors.

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Global labor leaders weigh in on the myriad ways the right is threatening organizing efforts. If we want to fight the global pandemic of right-wing extremism, w need to learn from each other, and operate with international solidarity.

To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat.

“That’s our strategy. He’s gonna declare himself a winner.”

The costs of recession are not simply limited to those workers who lose a job— they're incredibly widespread across the workforce.