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What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.”

The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.

What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?

Widespread flooding driven by devastating monsoons has affected 33 million people in Pakistan — some 15% of the population. Anger is growing at the government's failure to provide timely assistance.

The issue is whether Chileans will live in a repressive political structure and exploitative economic model installed by a dictatorship decades ago, or whether they will choose to start a new and egalitarian chapter in the history of Chile.

Interactions with the Higgs field only generate about 1 percent of ordinary mass. The other 99 percent comes from phenomena associated with the strong force, the fundamental force that binds quarks into protons and neutrons that comprise the nucleus of the atoms of ordinary matter.

Starbucks is seeking good PR by offering to cover travel costs for abortion and gender-affirming care for workers like me. But its promises come with caveats and can be revoked. We don’t want flimsy promises — we want these benefits in a union contract.

"I remember A League Of Their Own, and I specifically remember not seeing women that looked like me on that team," said Chanté Adams. Now she gets to play one.

Despite a mountain of evidence affirming the centrality of race in US politics, it is essentially ignored in almost all electoral analysis.

A side deal with Joe Manchin attempts to approve a pipeline in his backyard and speed through permitting rules. Progressives should make their own conditions.