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How George Orwell's Doublethink Became the Way of the World

Officials have described the recent shooting as an aberration in the “City of Good Neighbors.” But this conceals the city’s long-standing racial divisions.

Voters in Colombia and France put left coalitions in office, and Tunisian workers shut the country down

But one of the biggest drivers of inflation, at least according to the most recent Consumer Price Index report, has not elicited even a peep from the political class: the soaring cost of housing.

"We are witnessing one of the most extreme Supreme Courts in modern history rewrite the most basic social commitments of our society," said the head of one of the nation's largest teachers unions.

A brief history of how the Democratic Party’s turn to market capitalism wrecked everything.

The Apple store unionization vote comes against a backdrop of other labor organizing efforts nationwide — some of them rebuffed.

Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s June 19 election, becoming its first ever left-wing president. We analyze what this means for Latin America, the US, Venezuela, the military, paramilitary groups, the powerful oligarchy, and social movements.

A choice for organized baristas - if you can't get a union, buy the coffee shop

The Janes felt only months ago like a warning. Now it feels like a manual for action.