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Workers are using direct action to protest dangerous conditions at Amazon warehouses.

WestRock's Mahout Mill members resoundingly rejected this contract, even though it included an unheard-of $28,000 ratification bonus—increased from an already staggering offer of $20,000, which workers already rejected on Sept. 21.

While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes Native histories and Native people – an important addition to our ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be American.

The updated definition may help foster a healthier food supply if manufacturers add more vegetables or whole grains to meet criteria or develop products that meet the updated definition; it may help consumers identify healthier food choices.

Fortunately, there is another way―one that major thinkers and even, at times, national governments have promoted. And that is strengthened global governance.

Selectively borrowing Indigenous practices cannot truly address the climate crisis or injustices to Indigenous peoples perpetrated by white settler colonialism.

A new book argues that the Constitution is best understood as a document calling for the unashamed struggle for equality.

What liberal politicians and the media refuse to acknowledge is that crime is linked to the failures of capitalism, not to the lack of police. Indeed, police are part of the problem, not the solution.

The open data revolution won’t happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.

The result will have major implications for the U.S. government, which has given Colombia more than $13 billion in assistance so far this century, far more than for any other country in the hemisphere.