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Widespread flooding driven by devastating monsoons has affected 33 million people in Pakistan — some 15% of the population. Anger is growing at the government's failure to provide timely assistance.

What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?

The state auditor says $70 million in federal welfare funds went to Favre, a volleyball complex and a former pro wrestler in a scandal that has rocked Mississippi.

What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.”

This Labor Day, the poet A.D. Winans pays tribute to the workers of the world.

The survey was conducted by Railroad Workers United, an umbrella organization that stretches across the freight rail industry’s multiple unions, 13 of which are involved in contract talks with most of the nation’s largest freight rail carriers.

A precise answer requires precise questions

The DOJ's blistering response to Trump's request for a Special Master shows a high level of confidence about the law being on the government’s side and the damning nature of the evidence. It also shows that there’s work yet to be done.

There is something happening with angry women voting on abortion. Male politicians don’t seem to have noticed.

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.