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How holding out for the common good led to the longest strike of 2021

With a new federal indictment, the United States is finally turning on a former political ally, acknowledging that Juan Orlando Hernández’s ran a narco state. What took so long?

Winner at the Venice film festival, Audrey Diwan’s film, "Happening", captures the panic of an unwanted pregnancy before the legalization of abortion in provincial France.

States battle over abortion rights, and the Amazonization of work

Starbucks baristas in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood voted Monday to unionize, becoming the giant coffee chain’s first Maryland workers to organize amid a fast-growing national movement. The vote was 14-0.

The package, negotiated by the Democrats - Gov. Kathy Hochul, and have super-majorities in the two houses of the Legislature, includes massive education aid to localities, significant increases in funding for child care and public universities....

Today in Guatemala there are sustained attacks on judicial independence and threats against human rights defenders. But after waiting nearly four decades, the families of the victims of wartime atrocities demand their day in court.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

Ohlone people and owners of Cafe Ohlone, Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, see the restaurant as an unprecedented opportunity to educate about native traditions through food.

SEIU Local 32BJ offers a case study of how unions can win, especially in the private sector which has seemed impervious to organizing.