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New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee voted March 9 to scrap some of the best retiree health care coverage in the country. The change would put 250,000 city retirees into a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan run by Aetna.

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Echoing the complaints voiced by many protesters, Carlos called for a change of tactics after ten days of protests that brought millions to the streets – but failed to impress the government. “I’m fed up with these strolls around town. Macron will only listen once we shut down the economy.”

Staughton Lynd seemed like a personal force almost more than a person within the antiwar movement of the 1960s. My Country Is the World largely and usefully recounts the controversies that came with his rise in the peace movement of the middle 1960s

Our public schools shouldn't be pawns for politicians' ambitions. Or defunded and destroyed by ideologues. We are at a crossroads: Fear and division, or hope and opportunity. A great nation does not fear people being educated.

Protesters call for justice as blaze at detention facility in Ciudad Juárez highlights tough US immigration policies

Those beliefs are not evil but are stopping our healthcare system from being universally accessible to all Americans. Consequently, let’s examine how each assumption is challenged by how our healthcare compares to other nations’ healthcare plans.

The court is being asked to overturn an Appeals Court decision that would allow domestic abusers to possess firearms despite the fact that "the presence of a gun in a house with a domestic abuser increases the risk of homicide sixfold.”

Writers, producers, stylists, and other workers on “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” and “The Kitchen” are forming a union with the Writers Guild of America, East

This book, writes reviewer Wendland-Liu, shifts the geographic focus of "origins of capitalism" debates from Europe "to the motion, spaces, circuits and conflicts in multiple global sites and stages of economic production relations."