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Death, supermarkets, and an airborne toxic event.

Profound legal and political changes enacted in 2019 have undermined the monopoly of corrupt protection unions and opened the way for a transformation of Mexico’s labor relations regime.

And it’s damn well past time that the people who conceived and ordered and facilitated the execution of this crime against all the rest of us are held to account in a meaningful way

Having fought for labor rights under a dictatorship, the Brazilian president once again faces a violent far-right movement bent on blocking his pro-worker, pro-democracy agenda.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), the country’s main nursing union, has demanded legislation that would require minimum staffing levels in hospitals and threatened to strike if the Government does not agree.

Restaurant critics don’t talk about gentrification--a process whereby longtime residents of underserved neighborhoods are displaced in favor of more affluent ones, new businesses and amenities-but this critic discusses their possible role in it.

Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for 29 years, was denied a fellowship at the Kennedy School. The reason? Israel.

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century.

In an interview with ProPublica, Sam Cooper describes how he unearthed scandals that have shaken the Canadian political system.

During the colonial era, Britain routinely committed ethnic cleansing and applied genocidal policies in Kenya. It is time Britain apologized and paid reparations to millions of Kenyans who suffered under British rule.