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Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.

The person best positioned to break the power of Donald Trump would not be an anti-Trump Republican but an outsider who can credibly claim that Trump didn’t happen on his watch.

An interrogation of organized labor’s lily white and non-southern based ideal of who and what constitutes “American Labor’s” past and present

Poet Esther Kamkar meditates on an exhibit of quilts made by enslaved women.

Immigrants held at GEO Group’s Delaney Hall in Newark are on a labor and hunger strike, refusing to perform jobs that keep the place running. Daily demonstrations take place by families and supporters, at the private prison, financed by Citizens Bank

In his new encyclical, Pope Leo XIV revives the importance of the dignity of labor. So leave it to the pope to enliven our conversation about artificial intelligence by reviving the idea that work is intrinsic to human dignity.

The Iran War exposes how a new global catastrophe may unfold. The Iran war contains echoes of not only the Suez Moment, but of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Besides signaling to the world that US hegemony is on a downhill slide

Since October, 890 Gazans have been killed by Israeli fire despite the supposed 'cease-fire.' Forty-two of them were police officers whose job it is to maintain some semblance of order in a tormented and fractured society

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The lack of antitrust action has destroyed an iconic Wisconsin industry and the jobs of its packinghouse workers. The end of Cargill is a canary in the coal mine for the U.S. economy.