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The only difference between this film and a classic paranoid thriller like The Conversation is that now everyone is perfectly aware that they’re being listened to at all times.

War, fascism, and three gifted women

A pair of education funding bills in Hawaii that would bump up salaries for veteran teachers and continue salary boosts for hard-to-staff positions cleared key state Senate committees recently. This is a step-in the right direction.

Political participation is key to resisting efforts to prohibit the discussion of “controversial” ideas. Those flexing their political muscle to regulate what gets taught in classrooms understand this. Those of us doing the teaching need to as well.

These seed savers are preserving and celebrating the enormous genetic diversity of collard greens. That enslaved Africans brought collard greens to the United States gives the project even more pathos.

Teamster-affiliated Uber drivers in Seattle have won raises & benefits through city legislation. Now the union & employers are backing a bill that would take some benefits statewide—but would preempt Seattle from regulating the companies.

She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.

"I discover a cultural, political and economic legacy that was radically different from the reality I had grown up in: a legacy that had workers and farmers at its core ... as agents in the development of a new society, economy and culture"

Pandemic planners from the U.S., the World Health Organization, and other countries and organizations need to develop formal risk assessments and contingency plans for a wide range of possible pandemic futures.

The striking history behind the president’s invocation of the Ninth Amendment.