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Reports that focus on workers’ individual choices hide an important reality: corporations don’t want to take the fall for economic problems, but they are benefiting from new workplace practices. The employment shell game lets them off the hook.

Oliver Stone’s new documentary film presents a full and meticulously constructed presentation of the physical evidence which clearly supports his assassination conspiracy theory.

The Bronx apartment fire that recently killed 17 people was a devastating tragedy. It is also the entirely predictable outcome of a housing market that forces tenants to grovel for basic repairs while landlords rule as something close to kings.

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.