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Workers in action

Labor historians said they could not recall an instance when a sitting president had joined an ongoing strike, even during the tenures of ardent pro-union presidents such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

Since United Auto Workers union members struck the Big Three automakers, GOP candidates have confirmed that the party of Eisenhower is now the party of unreconstructed reactionaries.

“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it today by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

A lot, says one prominent political scientist. But most of all, they aren’t accountable to anyone.

Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.

The 40th-anniversary restoration of Jonathan Demme's Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense", a great concert film, is a funk spectacle. It has also united the band, which split in 1991, to discuss a landmark achievement.

When celebs disappoint, and creators turn against their industries

Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)

"Netanyahu made clear with his little map today what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine... from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes," one critic said.