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The nontenure-track faculty, like other staff members at the school and the museum, are organizing with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Nukes, we are told, would have deterred him (Putin), and so, we should cast our lot — even more than at present — with nuclear weapons so as to deter would-be aggressors. History argues otherwise, namely, that nuclear weapons do not prevent wars.

A hearing featuring Amazon Labor Union’s Christian Smalls looked at whether the government should continue to use companies as contractors after they engage in union-busting.

"We can no longer stand by while our judges and justices take advantage of our system to build wealth and power at the expense of our country's most marginalized," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

In most metro zip codes, majority of Black local renters don’t earn enough to afford median rents, National Equity Atlas found

The Northman is about a glowering, muscle-bound man-mountain named Prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård, son of Stellan) who as a boy witnesses the killing of his father, King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke), and the abduction of his mother, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), by the king’s betraying half-bastard brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Amleth vows revenge.

Strippers fight for a union, and AIPAC goes whole hog

Tim Schermerhorn, a Black socialist and retired New York City transit worker. In these excerpts from a forthcoming memoir, he describes what shaped his activism & lessons for a new generation.

Hundreds of child care providers in 27 states and Washington, D.C., went on strike Monday to remind policymakers how essential they are, not only to families but to the nation’s economy.