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Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) announced Monday it does not intend to make any counteroffer to the IATSE’s most recent proposal.

We need a reinvigorated anti-war movement. It is time to end all U.S. wars, shut down all U.S. military bases, and put an end to U.S. militarization and sanctions impacting countless people in the Global South.

Seventeen recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences have signed an open letter in support of President Biden’s Build Back Better package currently being considered in Congress.

Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and analysis from all over

This award-winning collection of short stories, writes reviewer Simms, "stands within a tradition of writing that’s about the beauty and burden of Black life within oppressive social systems."

After half a century studying the issue, here's lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly.

In Vermont, everyone loves clean energy—when it comes from someplace else

The city will decide on a sweeping measure that would limit the size, scope and influence of its police department.