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The essential workers who fought for their lives during the pandemic are now fighting for a union.

The Court ruled that the manufacturer can keep classifying the product as a spray, not a butter or margarine — and telling consumers that each serving is free of calories and fats.

Although May ’68 itself failed to deliver a revolution, the lessons of the era – alliance-building by including liberation struggles outside of socialism – shaped my later time in power.

During the Great Depression, St Louis’s Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. Black workers, mostly women, worked harder and made less than their white counterparts. So they went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them on the picket line.

Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars

Why we need to learn that when we defend abortion rights, we’re defending democracy.

The party needs to take its cue from America’s most celebrated leaders, who had no fear of talking directly to the public about the Constitution.

In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question.

Dead Ringers, which premieres on Friday, is subversive, sometimes shockingly gory, and a needful skewering of the U.S. medical system, the unethically wealthy, and perhaps most of all, the women society lauds as the arbiters of feminism.